Word Meanings - PEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To accuse of crime; to inform against. Foxe.

Related words: (words related to PEACH)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• INFORMANT
  1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• INFORMIDABLE
  Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• INFORMED
  Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• INFORMATIVE
  Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.
• INFORMALITY
  1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does
• ACCUSEMENT
  Accusation. Chaucer.
• INFORMATORY
  Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. London Spectator.
• INFORM
  Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton.
• ACCUSED
  Charged with offense; as, an accused person. Note: Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• SELF-ACCUSED
  Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.