criminate
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I am too much of a lawyer," he said, "to criminate myself, pardner, and you'll have to excuse me from going into further details.
From The Mystery of the Locks by Edgar Watson Howe
Perhaps my anxious appearance may have struck him, for he quickly said,— "You will be specially warned against saying anything which might criminate yourself, so that you need have no fears on that account."
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
Nowadays we do not ask a prisoner to criminate himself.
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble
Incriminate, in-krim′in-āt, v.t. to charge with a crime or fault, to criminate: to characterise as criminal or as accessory to crime.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
From Time Magazine Archive
After his tongue got limbered up, and his memory refreshed, he criminated Ury.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
The witnesses were fewer than at the Deemster's inquest, and they had nothing to say that directly criminated the fishermen.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
A civil war raged among the Index-makers; and if one criminated, the other retaliated.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
The ministers of the United States, in Europe, had reciprocally criminated each other, and some of them had been recalled.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Once some of the novelty wears off, Xerox users will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of my Baltimore friends would fain have persuaded me that, in the utter absence of criminating evidence, I should not be detained long; I forbore to argue, but my opinion remained always the same.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
I only desire you to enlighten me as to your cousin's probable motive for this criminating silence.
From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
There is a rashness in criminating this retirement from every-day political conflicts which is, to say the least, very short-sighted.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
