a. rare. [f. as prec. + -ORY.] Tending to or expressing blame.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), V. Postscript, If adjectives in osus, as famosus, &c. were not most commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense.
1801. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XII. 588. Eloquent culpatory diatribes.
