criminate
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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 Lady Anne Hamilton
The English law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from all efforts to make him criminate himself.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
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 Martha Finley
When the Commission met, and the treasurer and his deputy were called before it, they refused to answer questions which would criminate themselves.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe
Remember, the prisoner is not obliged to criminate himself, the burden of proof lies with Snooks, and she will find it a pretty heavy burden.”
From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
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Many are the causes which may dissolve the bonds of faithless “conjurations;” and it is not always he who abandons a party who is to be criminated by political tergiversation.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
They concurred in everything which she had told me, and repeated, without any signs of shame or compunction, things which criminated themselves.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our Church in consequence of their ignorance and inadvertence in not knowing, or not noticing, the contradistinction here meant between power and authority.
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If the matter was not public, the delinquent was not to be criminated because he did not make it so.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ...
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Once some of the novelty wears off, Xerox users will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy.
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She was not afraid for them to come; there was no danger of Mr. Trevlyn criminating himself now.
From The Fatal Glove by Clara Augusta
My Lords, every answer that most of them have been required to make they are sensible they cannot make without danger of criminating themselves, being all involved in the crimes of the prisoner.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Vampa wrote a criminating letter to the girl purporting to come from Massetti, and old Solara, stealing unobserved into the hut, placed it beneath his daughter's work-box on her table where she afterwards found it.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg