Definition of crime

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Crime (n.) That which occasion crime.

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Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
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..
Red-handed :: Red-handed (a. / adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed..
Confession :: Confession (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime..
Libel :: Libel (n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
Calumniate :: Calumniate (v. t.) To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel..
Accriminate :: Accriminate (v. t.) To accuse of a crime.
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
Appellee :: Appellee (n.) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor..
Implicate :: Implicate (v. t.) To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc..
Malefactor :: Malefactor (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
Present :: Present (a.) To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries..
Pathic :: Pathic (n.) A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.
Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.
Enormous :: Enormous (a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..
Detective :: Detective (a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer..
Infanticide :: Infanticide (n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Penal :: Penal (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence.
Ruffianly :: Ruffianly (a.) Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
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