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n.; pl. Culpabilities [ Cf. F. culpabilité. ] The state of being culpable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). [ 1913 Webster ]

If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Guilty; as, culpable of a crime. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

-- Cul"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Cul"pa*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. coulpe, fr.L.culpa. ] Blameworthiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Coupon. ] A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. corrupted for culpate, fr. Law Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See Culpable. ] 1. One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One quilty of a fault; a criminal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disculpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disculpating. ] [ LL. disculpatus, p. p. of disculpare to disculpate; dis- + L. culpare to blame, culpa fault. ] To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. disculpation. ] Exculpation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to exculpate; exculpatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exculpated p. pr. & vb. n.. Exculpating (&unr_;). ] [ L. ex out + culpatus, p. p. of culpare to find fault with, to blame, culpa fault. See Culpable. ] To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman.

Syn. -- To exonerate; absolve; clear; acquit; excuse; vindicate; justify. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. freed from any question of guilt; having suspicion of guilt eliminated.
Syn. -- absolved, cleared, exonerated, vindicated. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. LL. exculpatio. ] The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. “An exculpatory letter.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. inculper. See Inculpate. ] To inculpate. [ Obs. ] Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inculpabilis: cf. F. incupable. ] Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Blamelessness; faultlessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Blamelessly. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inculpated p. pr. & vb. n. Inculpating ] [ LL. inculpatus, p. p. of inculpare to blame; pref. in- in + culpa fault. See Culpable. ] [ A word of recent introduction. ] To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. Contrasted with exculpate. [ 1913 Webster ]

That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. inculpation. ] Blame; censure; crimination. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Inculpatory. [ Narrower terms: accusatorial, accusatory, accusing; comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory; condemnatory, condemning ; criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory ; damnatory, damning ; recriminative, recriminatory ] Also See: guilty.
Syn. -- inculpatory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Imputing blame; causing blame to be imputed to; criminatory; compromising; implicating. Opposite of exculpatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. insculpere: cf. F. insculper. See 1st In-, and Sculptor. ] To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [ Obs. & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inscription. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An engraving, carving, or inscription. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Engraved. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Photo- + sculpture. ] A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Sculptor. ] To sculpture; to carve; to engrave. [ Obs. or Humorous. ] Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also skulpin. ] (Zool.) (a) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with several sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America. (b) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa. (c) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lyra). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other related California species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep-water sculpin, the sea raven. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sculptilis. See Sculptor. ] Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. &unr_; to carve: cf. F. sculpteur. ] 1. One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female sculptor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture. ] 1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen
The mad affection of the Cretan queen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sculptured p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing. ] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sculptured tortoise (Zool.), a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inculpable; not blameworthy. [ R. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]