Word Meanings - EMPLEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

Related words: (words related to EMPLEAD)

• INDICTEE
  A person indicted.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• INDICTER
  One who indicts.
• IMPLEAD
  To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
• INDICTOR
  One who indicts. Bacon.
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• ACCUSEMENT
  Accusation. Chaucer.
• INDICTMENT
  The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury. Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand jury is essential, while an information rests only on presentation
• INDICTIVE
  Proclaimed; declared; public. Kennet.
• INDICT
  To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives
• 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.
• INDICTION
  1. Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. "Indiction of a war." Bacon. Secular princes did use to indict, or permit the indiction of, synods of bishops. Jer. Taylor. 2. A cycle of fifteen years. Note: This mode of reckoning time
• IMPLEADER
  One who prosecutes or sues another.
• INDICTABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.
• IMPLEADABLE
  Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous. T. Adams.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• SELF-ACCUSED
  Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.
• VINDICTIVE
  1. Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful. I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. Dryden. 2. Punitive. Vindictive damages. See under Damage, n. -- Vin*dic"tive*ly, adv. -- Vin*dic"tive*ness, n.