a. [ad. L. accūsātōri-us belonging to an accuser or accusation.] Of or belonging to accusing; of the nature of, tending to, or containing an accusation.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 171. Æschines … at Rhodes rehearsed that accusatorie oration which he had made against Demosthenes.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 50. In a charge of adultery, the accuser ought to set forth in the accusatory libel … some certain and definite time.
1850. Grote, Greece, VIII. II. lxii. 37. He represented the demagogic and accusatory eloquence of the democracy.
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., I. iii. 32. [He] moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, ‘I couldn’t help it, Sir!’
