Word Meanings - RECRIMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

Related words: (words related to RECRIMINATE)

• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• HOPPERINGS
  Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• HOPEITE
  A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• HOPPLE
  Etym: 1. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse. 2. Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. Dr. H. More.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• HOPYARD
  A field where hops are raised.
• 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.
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
• ONYCHOPHORA
  Malacopoda.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• ACANTHOPHOROUS
  Spine-bearing. Gray.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• WHOP
  See FORBY
• SHOPPISH
  Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.
• CHOP SUEY; CHOP SOOY
  A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil.
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• ACANTHOPTERYGII
  An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.