Obs. [a. Anglo-Fr. (14th c.) a(c)cusour (mod. Fr. accuseur):—OFr. acusor, acuseor:—L. accusātōr-em: see ACCUSATOR. Subseq. supplanted by or altered to accuser, with native suffix -ER: see -OR, -OUR.] The early form of ACCUSER.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5422. Many accusers þar sal be þan … Fiften maneres of accusours sere.
c. 1385. Chaucer, Leg. G. W., Prol. 353. For in your court is many a losengeour, And many a queinte totoler accusour.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle (1483), I. viii. 5. The accusours haue fyrst place and tyme of audyence.
1494. Fabyan, VI. cxciii. 197. [He] shulde forfayte a certayne peny, wherof ye one half shuld fall to the accusour.
