blame Copy link Outline I. Censure1. culpa2. reprĕhensio3. vĭtŭpĕrātio4. incūsātio (denoting an emphatic upbraiding)5. imprŏbātio.II. The fault itself1. culpa2. noxia • blame, blaming (subs.): I. Censure: 1. culpa: (prop. the fault; but in certain connexions, the blame of it): fortune bears the b. of all these evils, horum malorum omnium c. fortuna sustinet, Cic.: I have avoided b., not deserved praise, vitavi c., laudem non merui, Hor.: v. inf. (II.). 2. reprĕhensio: the b. of a fault, culpae r., Cic.: things deserving of no b., nullâ r. digna, Suet. 3. vĭtŭpĕrātio: (stronger than the preceding): to avoid b., v. vitare, Cic.: v. reproof. 4. incūsātio (denoting an emphatic upbraiding): Cic. 5. imprŏbātio.: v. disapproval. II. The fault itself: 1. culpa: they laid the b. thereof on the multitude, ejus rei c. in multitudinem contulerunt, Caes.: to lay the b. on another's shoulders, c. in aliquem transferre, Cic.: Hor. 2. noxia: to be free from b., esse extra n., Ter.; noxiā carere, Pl.: v. fault.