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KJV Dictionary / A / accusable

KJV Dictionary Definition: accusable

accusable

ACCU'SABLE,a. That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of.

accusant

ACCU'SANT, n. One who accuses.

accusation

ACCUSA'TION, n.

1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice.

2. The charge of an offense or crime; or the declaration containing the charge.

They set over his head his accusation. Mat. 27.

accusative

ACCU'SATIVE, a. A term given to a case of nouns, in Grammars, on which the action of a verb terminates or falls; called in English Grammar the objective case.

accusatively

ACCU'SATIVELY, adv.

1. In an accusative manner.

2. In relation to the accusative case in Grammar.

accuse

ACCU'SE, v.t. L. accuso, to blame or accuse; ad and causor, to blame, or accuse; causa, blame, suit, or process, cause. See Cause.

1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; to charge with an offense against the laws, judicially or by a public process; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

2. To charge with a fault; to blame.

Their thoughts, in the meanwhile, accusing or excusing one another. Rom. 2.

It is followed by of before the subject of accusation; the use of for after this verb is illegitimate.

accused

ACCU'SED, pp. Charged with a crime, by a legal process; charged with an offense; blamed.

accuser

ACCU'SER, n. One who accuses or blames; an officer who prefers an accusation against another for some offense, in the name of the government, before a tribunal that has cognizance of the offense.

accusing

ACCU'SING, ppr. Charging with a crime; blaming.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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