criminate

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An accused person is not obliged to criminate himself.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Fyfe, J. Hamilton

Whoever thought of requiring them to criminate themselves?

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

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