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Definition of Criminative
1. Adjective. Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame. "Incriminatory testimony"
Similar to: Inculpative, Inculpatory
Derivative terms: Criminate, Criminate, Incriminate
Definition of Criminative
1. a. Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
Definition of Criminative
1. Adjective. (archaic) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminative
Literary usage of Criminative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elemenatry Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, Charles Frederic Chamberlayne (1883)
"... self- criminative evidence 654 Continental practice 555 Arguments against it
557 Arguments in favor of judicial interrogation 556 False self-criminative ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"criminative CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. "criminative circumstantial evidence" is
derived from the conduct of the party accused, and external objects or ..."
3. A Treatise on the Nature, Principles and Rules of Circumstancial Evidence by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1868)
"In other words, they aro favorable interpretations of the particular criminative
facts, of which they may, more or less reasonably, admit. ..."
4. A Treatise on Presumptions of Law and Fact with the Theory and Rules of by W M Best (1845)
"... procedure in the country ;(r) and, lastly, the rare, although no doubt possible,
case of the falsity of the supposed self-criminative recollection. ..."
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