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Villainy :: Villainy (n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime.

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

Notoriety :: Notoriety (n.) The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime..

Incest :: Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Into :: Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits

Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness..

Chersonese :: Chersonese (n.) A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea..

Abetment :: Abetment (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc..

Instigate :: Instigate (v. t.) To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.

Criminative :: Criminative (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.

Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..

Felonious :: Felonious (a.) Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide..

Malefaction :: Malefaction (n.) A crime; an offense; an evil deed.

Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..

Aright :: Aright (adv.) Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright..

Principal :: Principal (n.) The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory..

Innoxious :: Innoxious (a.) Free from crime; pure; innocent.

Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..

Mittimus :: Mittimus (n.) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.

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