Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To impeach.
- To censure; reproach; accuse; give accusatory evidence.
Wiktionary
- v. To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach. [15th-17th c.]
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.
Examples
“Wit thou well, an thou appeach me of treason I shall thereof defend me afore King Arthur; but I require thee that thou tell not my name, that I am King Mark, whatsomever come of me.”
“Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.”
“Cæsar: to deprive him of the occasion and opportunity, openly to shew his bounty and mercy, and to give his enemies cause to accuse the most courteous and noble prince that ever was, and to appeach him, as though he were a cruel and merciless man, that were not to be trusted.”
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
“When King Mark saw he might not be revenged on them, he said thus unto the knight, Amant: Wit thou well, an thou appeach me of treason I shall thereof defend me afore King Arthur; but I require thee that thou tell not my name, that I am King Mark, whatsomever come of me.”
“When Amant, the knight, saw him do that villainous deed, and his squires, they said it was foul done, and mischievously: Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.”
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