criminate

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After a while the woman came and searched her carefully, but found nothing to criminate the girl, as the last piece of the letter had already gone down her throat.

From Elsie in the South by Finley, Martha

Nowadays we do not ask a prisoner to criminate himself.

From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred

Recriminate, rē-krim′in-āt, v.t. to criminate or accuse in return.—v.i. to charge an accuser with a similar crime.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

As in law, so in morals, no man need criminate himself, but he who does so by an inadvertence is lost.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

Could any thing tend more to criminate his lordship than the sudden punishment of the accuser, while in the act of preferring his complaint?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne