[ad. L. crīminātiōn-em, n. of action from crīmināre: see prec.] The action of charging with a crime or grave offence; severe accusation or censure.
1583. Fulke, Defence, xvii. 512. You have placed your crimination in the first chapter.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Ps. lxix. 4. Loaden with many calumnies and false criminations.
1786. Burke, W. Hastings, Wks. 1842, II. 231. The said Hastings hath established divers matters of weighty and serious crimination against himself.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 250. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties.
