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accusatorial

adjective as in pertaining to an accusation

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In the 17th-century Lutheran kingdom of Denmark, for example, witches would be tried according to the more old-fashioned “accusatorial” system of justice.

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Predator behavior is ingrained in society and all accusatorial instances need to be viewed through this prism.

Instead, the entire country would move to a so-called accusatorial system, in which prosecutors and defense lawyers presented their evidence in public.

The reserved statements from lawmakers who over the past weeks withheld at least some judgment on the expanding probes seemed to give way Sunday to a much more accusatorial posture.

When a crime had been committed, and the criminal had not been taken in the fact, there remained two ways of proceeding against him, namely, the inquisitorial and the accusatorial processes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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