Lewis Short
accūsātĭo (noun F) : id.
* Complaint, accusation, indictment.
* In abstr.: ratio judiciorum ex accusatione et defensione constat,Cic. Off. 2, 14: comparare et constituere accusationem,to bring in,Cic. Verr. 1, 1: intentare,Tac. A. 6, 4: capessere,id. ib. 4, 52: exercere,id. H. 2, 10: factitare, to pursue or urge, Cic. Brut. 34: accusatione desistere, to desist from, give up, id. Fragm. Corn. ap. Ascon.; later, demittere,Aur. Vict. 28, 2: accusationi respondere,to answer,Cic. Clu. 3.
* In concr., the bill of indictment, the action or suit: in accusationis septem libris,i. e. in the Orations against Verres,Cic. Or. 29, 103; so Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 110.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary