Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Accusation

Accusation ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old French acusation, French accusation, Latin accusatio, from accusare. See Accuse.]

1.
The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. — Shakespeare
2.
That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
[They] set up over his head his accusation. — Matt. xxvii. 37