criminate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.

Verb

criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)

(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:
  ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […] .’
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
  In Germany, I had heard little of this terrible gang, and I had paid no greater heed to the stories related once or twice about them in Carlsruhe than one does to tales about ogres. But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired. No one would be legally responsible for any evidence criminating the murderer.
(transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

accriminate
discriminate
incriminate
recriminate

Related terms

crimination

Translations

accuse

Bulgarian: обвинявам (bg) (obvinjavam), осъждам (bg) (osǎždam)
Irish: coirigh

rebuke

Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam)

Anagrams

anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kriː.miˈnaː.te/, [kriːmɪˈnäːt̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kri.miˈna.te/, [krimiˈnäːt̪e]

Verb

crīmināte

second-person plural present active imperative of crīminō