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Definition of Criminatory
1. Adjective. Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame. "Incriminatory testimony"
Similar to: Inculpative, Inculpatory
Derivative terms: Criminate, Criminate, Incriminate
Definition of Criminatory
1. a. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
Definition of Criminatory
1. Adjective. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminatory
Literary usage of Criminatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"Criminatory communications by public officers acting in discharge of a public
duty.—A criminatory communication made by a clerk of the peace to the justices ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Replica—Genet assumes an Angry and Criminatory Tone—His Proposal to stop
Payments on the St. Domingo Drafts—Discussions in relation to the Treaty of ..."
3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty,
although it contain criminatory matter which, without this privilege, ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Discovery: With an Appendix of Forms by Edward Bray (1885)
"... as to Criminatory or Penalising Discovery. (a) By Statute. In some cases the
same statute which has declared some transaction illegal and has imposed a ..."
5. Narrative of Don Juan Van Halen's Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the by Juan Van Halen (1828)
"... by masked servants from his dungeon to the chamber of torment— Zorrilla
addresses him in a criminatory summary—The author tortured—Manner in which ..."
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