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One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

e; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.

To extenuate; to palliate. [R.] He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson.

by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

To punish, in general; to mulct. Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven. Milton. Shall by him be amerced with penance due. Spenser.

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

Incomplete or faulty development.

To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

A calling to an account to faults; accusation. In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden.

To expiate; to atone for. [Archaic] Spenser. Let each act assoil a fault. E. Arnold.

e relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.

ee from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

noun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.

made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. -- Blam"a*ble*ness, n. -- Blam"a*bly (, adv.