Accused

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accuse \Ac*cuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accused}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Accusing}.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call
     to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. {Cause}.]
     1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or
        offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by
        a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high


        crime or misdemeanor.
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              Neither can they prove the things whereof they now
              accuse me.                            --Acts xxiv.
                                                    13.
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              We are accused of having persuaded Austria and
              Sardinia to lay down their arms.      --Macaulay.
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     2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
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              Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else
              excusing one another.                 --Rom. ii. 15.
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     3. To betray; to show. [R.]                    --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     Syn: To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict;
          impeach; arraign.
  
     Usage: To {Accuse}, {Charge}, {Impeach}, {Arraign}. These
            words agree in bringing home to a person the
            imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat
            formal act, and is applied usually (though not
            exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason.
            Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a
            dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it
            refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with
            dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a
            person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign
            one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To
            impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in
            office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both
            impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar
            dignity or impressiveness.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accused \Ac*cused"\, a.
     Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
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     Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one
           charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal
           case.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  accused
       n : a defendant in a criminal proceeding

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "accused":
     arraigned, blamed, charged, cited, correspondent, defendant,
     denounced, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity,
     incriminated, inculpated, indicted, involved, libelee, prisoner,
     reproached, respondent, suspect, tasked, taxed, under attack,
     under fire