Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Accuse

Accuse ({not transcribed}) , noun

Accusation. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare

Accuse ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old French acuser, French accuser, Latin accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Compare Cause.]

1.
(Law) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
(Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. — Acts xxiv. 13
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. — Macaulay
2.
To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. — Rom. ii. 15
3.
To betray; to show. [Rare]