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to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Accusation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

To accuse again. Cheyne.

Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.

An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. [Obs.]

To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

An accuser. Bp. Hall.

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

An accuser. [Obs.] Raleigh.

To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. [Obs.]

One who accuses another of felony or treason. [Obs.]

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill.

To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.