单词 | accusatorial |
释义 | accusatorialadj. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by accusation; accusing, reproachful. Also in early use: prosecutorial. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] wrayful?c1225 accusatorya1400 accusative?a1475 informablec1475 querelatory1553 condemnatory1570 accusatorial1788 accusive1861 1788 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXIII. 152 He was complaining of a paper referred to in the course of Sir Elijah Impey's defence, as containing accusatorial matter, and matter criminatory to him. 1790 Public Advertiser 10 Mar. The public would naturally feel a considerable degree of surprize, if the Commons had examined a man as a witness, whom in their accusatorial capacity they had thought fit to implicate in the charge of murder. 1800 Morning Post 26 Dec. In violation of every principle of justice, they unite accusatorial with judicial powers. 1895 Methodist Rev. Jan. 117 The man who accuses all other men is probably himself unsafe; and when his accusatorial profession is profitable we are almost certain that he may be as expert in theft as he is in lying. 1921 P. T. Gilbert Key to Culture 136 A verbal accusatorial statement oftentimes leads to a violent lovers' quarrel, frequently resulting in a regrettable breach. 1975 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 13 Feb. b16/2 Without an upward glance from his hunched position over a new electronic typewriter he can whisper accusatorial complaints penetrating even the stoutest defense. 2007 T. W. Williams Happily Never After (2009) vii. 101 ‘What's going on over here?’ he asks in an accusatorial tone. 2. Law. Of or relating to a system of criminal procedure in which the roles of prosecutor and judge are distinct; designating such a system. Contrasted with inquisitorial. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [adjective] > methods of proceeding summar1555 plenary1726 summary jurisdictiona1754 accusatory1770 adversary1785 accusatorial1823 inquisitorial1823 ore tenus1831 adversarial1914 1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 350 In modern Rome-bred law, this mode of procedure, in which the parts of judge and prosecutor are performed by the same person, is styled the inquisitorial; in contradistinction to this, that in which the part of prosecutor is borne by a different person, is styled the accusatorial. 1837 T. Keightley Secret Societies Middle Ages 355 The Fehm-tribunals had three different modes of procedure, namely, that in case of the criminal being taken in the fact, the inquisitorial, and the purely accusatorial. 1900 Q. Rev. Jan. 198 There is the French school [of Criminal Procedure]..and there is the Anglo-Saxon school..The one is technically known as the Inquisitorial system, the other as the Accusatorial system. 1957 Calif. Law Rev. 45 127 If the federal courts assume the burdens sought to be imposed upon them by paragraphs (a) and (b)..they will take a step away from our accusatorial method in dealing with deviants and in the direction of the inquisitional technique. 1998 Community Care 12 Feb. 10/4 She says the accusatorial system is not working well. ‘It may be that the inquisitorial system would be more appropriate.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1788 |
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