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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.]
    • 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

Translations

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.

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

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