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.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
2.
To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
3.
To betray; to show. [Rare]