'Accuse' in the Bible
So if Demetrius and his workers have a charge against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They should accuse one another there.
And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
But some Jews from Asia were there, and they should be here before you to accuse me if they have anything against me.
Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting.
But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.