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incriminate, v.|ɪnˈkrɪmɪneɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. incrīmināre to accuse, f. in- (in-2) + crīmināre to criminate; perh. partly due to F. incriminer (1791 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
trans. To charge with a crime; to involve in an accusation or charge.
1730–6Bailey (folio), To Incriminate, to recriminate. 1828Webster, Incriminate, to accuse; to charge with a crime or fault. 1862Wraxall Hugo's ‘Misérables’ v. xi, Their theory is incriminated. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 220 It would be wrong to incriminate the Order of S. Francis by any suspicion. 1885Manch. Exam. 6 June 5/3 Evidence which will incriminate others while it clears themselves.
Hence inˈcriminated, inˈcriminating ppl. adjs.
1858Times 27 Nov. 8/2 Any incriminated phrase of Montalembert's pamphlet. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. xiv. 231 This Maupas, or de Maupas..deliberately offered to arrange that incriminating papers..should be secretly placed in the houses of the men whom he wanted to have accused. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xix. 343 If the ordinary claimed the incriminated clerk. 1882Traill Sterne iv. 40 An excuse for the incriminated passage. |
