/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Lay to One’s Charge (To)
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To attribute an offence to a person.
“And he [Stephen] kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sin to their charge.”—Acts vii. 60. The phrase occurs again in the Bible, e.g. Deut. xxi. 8; Rom. viii. 33, etc.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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