rare. [f. the vb.] The act of accusing or charging with crime; charge, accusation.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. i. 160. And dogged Yorke … By false accuse doth leuell at my life.
1647. N. Bacon, Hist. Disc., xxxvi. 86. In nature of positive accuse of one for a crime.
