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2.11 Jurisprudence
accuse, arrest, acquit, vindicate, condone, recidivism
accuse = charge = arraign = indict = impeach = criminate = incriminate^
recriminate : implicate
• (accuse)- to charge with a shortcoming or error, ( ); I
can complain no longer, for that would mean to accuse, and I do not even
want toaccuse friend Devrient. — Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt;
• (charge)- Law to instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the
weighing of evidence; I solemnly declare to you that this charge is a most
infamous calumny. — The Memoirs of Napoleon;
• (arraign)- to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment, ((
) , ); Sidney Prale
was arraigned, and the plea of not guilty was made and entered. — The
Brand of Silence A Detective Story;
• (indict)- (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means
of bringing to trial, ( ); The Democratic Party and the mass
media have refused to indict, impeach, prosecute, and convict this White
House;
• (impeachment)- (in Congress or a state legislature) the presentation of
formal charges against a public official by the lower house, trial to be
before the upper house, ( ,
); The abuses stated in our impeachment are not those of
mere individual, natural faculties, but the abuses of civil and political
authority. — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12);
• (criminate)- to incriminate; He resolutely refused to criminate himself; and
the evidence against him was insufficient. — The History of England, from the
Accession of James II — Volume 2;
• (incriminate)- to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault, ( /
/ ); However, the law grants them the right to self-
incriminate: voluntary confessions are admissible;
• (recrimination)- to bring a countercharge against an accuser,(
; ); He has left our politics a wreck of recrimination,
anger and polarization. — The Corner;