self accused

Accused by one's self to others, or by one's own conscience. "Die self- accused of life run all to waste." Cowper : Bill of Mortality (A. D. 1788). self-acting, a. Acting of or by itself; applied to any automatic contrivance for superseding the manipulation which would otherwise be required in the management of machines; as, a self - acting valve, one moved by the action of the fluid, in contradistinction to one moved by mechanical devices.