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

A joint accusation.

discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

The act of incriminating; crimination.

Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.

ation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.

dgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. That Augustan delicacy of taste which is the boast of the great public schools of England. Macaulay.

Discrimination.

Discrimination. Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion. Shak.

With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster.

Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] Boyle.

objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination. To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite. Hooker.

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.