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The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. Blackstone.

In violation of law; wickedly.

Criminality. [R.]

To accuse of, or charge with, a crime. To criminate, with the heavy and ungrounded charge of disloyalty and disaffection, an uncorrupt, independent, and reforming parliament. Burke.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.

Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. R. North.

Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.

uestioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

Pertaining to a culmen.

Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [R.]

o come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. Milton.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

Having the point or top cut off. [Obs.] Bailey.

A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grain and removing the germs.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Having half the nature of another. [R.] Shak.

Capable of being denominated or named. Sir T. Browne.

; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.

That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denominatio…

Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.