Arbitrate vs Accuse - What's the difference?
arbitrate | accuse |
To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
* Shakespeare
To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
* (rfdate) ,
To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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As verbs the difference between arbitrate and accuse
is that arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter while accuse is .arbitrate
English
Verb
- to arbitrate a disputed case
- There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
- We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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