criminate

English

Etymology

First attested circa 1591; borrowed from Latin crīminātus, perfect passive participle of crīminō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Verb

criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)

1. (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: arraign, charge, incriminate; see also Thesaurus:incriminate

   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 331:

     ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […] .’

   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:

     In Germany, I had heard little of this terrible gang, and I had paid no greater heed to the stories related once or twice about them in Carlsruhe than one does to tales about ogres. But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired. No one would be legally responsible for any evidence criminating the murderer.

2. (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• accriminate

Related terms

• discriminate
• incriminate
• recriminate

Translations

accuse

• Bulgarian: обвинявам (bg) (obvinjavam), осъждам (bg) (osǎždam)
• Irish: coirigh
• Latin: crīminō
• Polish: obwiniać (pl) impf, obwinić (pl) pf, obciążać (pl) impf, obciążyć (pl) pf, zarzucać (pl) impf, zarzucić (pl) pf, inkryminować (pl) impf, oskarżać (pl) impf, oskarżyć (pl) pf
• Spanish: criminar (es), acriminar (es)

rebuke

• Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) (poricavam)
• Polish: ganić (pl) impf, zganić pf

Adjective

criminate (comparative more criminate, superlative most criminate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participle) Criminated.
   • (Can we date this quote?), H. Smith, Sermon:

     If this bee a crime to call Vanitie, Vanitie: the wisest man that euer was before Christ was herein criminate, not when hee strayed, but when hee repented.

Anagrams

• anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kriː.mɪˈnaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kri.miˈnaː.te]

Verb

crīmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crīminō

Spanish

Verb

criminate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of criminar combined with te