criminate
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He did not wish by any means, he said, to induce him to criminate himself; but merely to give such explanations as he might think fit.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The savage vehemence with which he uttered these words caused a shudder throughout the crowded court, and went even further to criminate him in popular opinion than all that had been alleged in evidence.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
It's a flam and a humbug,—a fiction like the old story about an Englishman's house being his castle, or that balderdash, 'No man need criminate himself.'
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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
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 Charles James Lever
Intellectuals were denied free expression; businessmen were dis criminated against in favor of nobles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our Church in consequence of their own ignorance and inadvertence in not knowing, or not noticing, the contra-distinction here meant between power and authority.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Then what would become of Edward, whom she had tacitly criminated?
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
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
"I am afraid, Ma'am," says I, "that you have not hit on any little criminating discovery in the lodger's room?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
He could extricate himself by criminating his dead father, but that he should never do.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Each now commenced giving a confused version of the affair, criminating and recriminating in a manner that only served to increase the disgrace to which it attached.
From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
