1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.
2. Guilty; as, clpable of a crime. [Obs.] Spenser.
— Cul"pa*ble*ness, n.
— Cul"pa*bly, adv.
CULPATORY
Cul"pa*to*ry (-t-r), a.
Defn: Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.
CULPE
Culpe (klp), n. Etym: [F. coulpe, fr.L.culpa.]
Defn: Blameworthiness. [Obs.]
Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.
CULPON
Cul"pon (kl"pn), n. Etym: [See Coupon.]
Defn: A shered; a fragment; a strip of wood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CULPRIT
Cul"prit (kl"prt), n. Etym: [Prob. corrupted for culpate, fr. Law
Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See
Culpable.]
1. One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior.