criminative, a.
(ˈkrɪmɪnətɪv)
[f. L. ppl. stem crīmināt- + -ive.]
Tending to or involving crimination; that charges with crime or grave offence; accusatory.
| a 1734 North Lives I. 214 In such cases the courtiers are..criminative against the judges..as being morose, ill-bred, and disrespectful. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. viii. 680 Their criminative representations against Macartney. 1849 Grote Greece ii. lix. (1862) V. 248 The criminative orators were omnipotent. |