accusedadj.n.

c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 34 (MED) If the iuge aske of man acusede that thynge that he may not, vpon ordyr of ryght, the acused es not holden to answer hym.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xii. §17. 79 Accused men..with long hanging beard, with vncombed heare.

1615 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 196 Still reserving the one eare to the pairtie accused.

a1676 A. Honyman Bourignonism (1710) 69 A Judge doth not condemn an accused Person, by..making him Inherently or Qualitatively wicked.

1738 J. Hooper Impartial Hist. Rebellion 159/2 It was evident now that the accused Members were too mighty for the King or the Law, and that they would admit no other Judges of their Guilt, than themselves.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iv. iv. 735 Indictment, which method is generally observed where the accused person to be tried is in prison.

1832 W. E. Du Bois Trial Lucretia Chapman 152 An innocent woman married to the accused murderer of a once loved husband.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 144 Eustace and the other accused persons should not be given up.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 25 May 7/3 Secret-service agent Brown took the accused man in charge.

1969 Sunday Mirror (Sydney) 13 Apr. 9/4 The accused officer has always been known as a ‘boy scout’—a policeman who goes strictly by the book.

2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 24 Jan. i. 7/6 Accused cop-killer James Scott took the stand in his own defense Friday.

a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 39 (MED) Than the Right callid thaccusers and the accused and comaunded that thei shulden Reherse the plees.

1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. Aii The good Prince..being offered the medicine by the accused, first took it, and dranke it vp.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 17 And frowning brow to brow our selues will heare, The accuser and the accused . View more context for this quotation

1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 129 The accused is not heard speak for himself, and you never heard what he hath to say.

1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 412 Th' accus'd stood forth, and thus address'd the Queen.

1795 W. Woodfall Impartial Rep. Deb. Two Houses of Parl. I. 341 Was it..no penalty to the accused..to be liable to be re-committed and re-tried?

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 521 He and he alone..could save the accused from the gallows.

1868 in W. W. Beling Handy Bk. Police Courts (Ceylon) (1869) II. 134 The evidence establishes the truth of the defence set up for the accuseds, that the breaking down of those things was done in the exercise of a bona fide claim of right. The accuseds may be mistaken in this claim.

1938 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 3 June 6 The accused were members of the ‘Ishotsi’ gang..composed for the specific purpose of robbery.

1987 Army Lawyer Dec. 27/1 Military law recognizes the propriety of military judges considering the sentences received by other accuseds for convictions resulting from similar misconduct, especially where an accused faces a highly disparate sentence.

2009 New Yorker 10 Aug. 30/2 Seventeen of the accused were killed through ‘extra legal violence’—that is to say, lynched.