To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; to charge with an offense against the laws, judicially or by a public process; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

To charge with a fault; to blame. Their thoughts, in the meanwhile, accusing or excusing one another. Romans 2:15. It is followed by of before the subject of accusation; the use of for after this verb is illegitimate.