Word Meanings - PEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To accuse of crime; to inform against. Foxe.
Related words: (words related to PEACH)
- INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - ACCUSE
Accusation. Shak. - INFORMANT
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction. - INFORMATION
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal - INFORMER
One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution - INFORMIDABLE
Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton. - CRIME
which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction - CRIMELESS
Free from crime; innocent. Shak. - INFORMED
Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed. - ACCUSER
One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault. - INFORMALLY
In an informal manner. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - INFORMALITY
1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does - INFORMATIVE
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More. - ACCUSEMENT
Accusation. Chaucer. - INFORMATORY
Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. London Spectator. - INFORM
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton. - ACCUSED
Charged with offense; as, an accused person. Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case. - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. - REACCUSE
To accuse again. Cheyne. - MISINFORMER
One who gives or incorrect information. - FALSICRIMEN
The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though - SELF-ACCUSED
Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.