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o censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

Faulty; meriting blame. Shak.

Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.

In a blameless manner.

The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.

One who blames. Wyclif.

Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.

To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure. Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Rom. ii. 15.

to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

To blame; to accuse; to charge with. [Obs.] Thoughts and expressions . . . which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality. Dryden.

r. Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. Pope. And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. Spenser.

infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

To take to task; to blame. Shak.

pt. [Obs. or Archaic] It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

tion; warrant. Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame. Shak.

To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. Dryden.

ble for; to be due to. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. No blame belongs to thee. Shak.