Middle English Dictionary Entry
ac(c)ūsāto(u)r n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ac(c)ūsāto(u)r n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An accuser; (b) a plaintiff.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prols.1 Par.(Dc 370)315 : To my bacbyters oonly I answer..and acusatours and defendours.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.88 : Þe foule synnes þat þes accusatours [of the woman taken in adultery] hadden don.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)130/9 : Iuge not vnto dethe the woman..falsely acused..but her accusatourez be enquered.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)59.520 (v.1:p.368) : Now I stode aforn my iuge, and myn accusatour the devil beside me.
b
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)520 : Whan thay toke apon thaim thoffyce of auctour and accusator and thoffice of wytnes and of þe juge ayenst all maner lawes.