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

An accuser. Bp. Hall.

An accuser. [Obs.] Raleigh.

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

An informer; an accuser. [Obs.] Chaucer.

oral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak.

An accuser; an informer. [R.] Howell.

An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.

itting; to be on the feet. (b) To arise in order to speak or act. "Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed." Acts xxv. 18. (c) To rise and stand on end, as the hair. (d) To put one's self in opposition; to contend. "Once we stood up about the corn." Shak. --…

he worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects. [The accusers] had certain questions against him of their own superstition. Acts xxv. 19.

To aggravate; to heighten. It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge. Atterbury.