a. [f. L. ppl. stem crīmināt- + -IVE.] Tending to or involving crimination; that charges with crime or grave offence; accusatory.
a. 1734. North, Lives, I. 214. In such cases the courtiers are … criminative against the judges … as being morose, ill-bred, and disrespectful.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. viii. 680. Their criminative representations against Macartney.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. lix. (1862), V. 248. The criminative orators were omnipotent.
