Definition of criminal

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Criminal (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness..

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Tardy :: Tardy (superl.) Criminal; guilty.
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..
Criminology :: Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Crimeful :: Crimeful (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal..
Criminal :: Criminal (a.) Guilty of crime or sin.
Piacularity :: Piacularity (n.) The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
Criminality :: Criminality (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
Criminally :: Criminally (adv.) In violation of law; wickedly.
Jurisdiction :: "Jurisdiction (a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission..
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor..
Precognition :: Precognition (n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..
Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..
Penal :: Penal (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence.
Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..
Culpable :: Culpable (a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..
Civilization :: Civilization (n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.
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