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Word Meanings - PEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To accuse of crime; to inform against. Foxe.

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  • 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.

 

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