Definition of crime

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Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong..

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Barratry :: Barratry (n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
Lack :: Lack (n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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..
Criminate :: Criminate (v. t. ) To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
Accessary :: Accessary (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory..
Scrimer :: Scrimer (n.) A fencing master.
Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
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..
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service..
Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
Abetment :: Abetment (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc..
Accusation :: Accusation (n.) That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge..
Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..
Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness..
Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt..
Sacrilege :: Sacrilege (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..
Perpetrate :: Perpetrate (v. t.) To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed..
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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