Definition of Accomplece
Ac*com"plice (&?;), n. [Ac- (perh. for the
article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.]
1. A cooperator. [R.]
Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices!
Shak.
2. (Law) An associate in the commission of a
crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an
accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason."
Johnson. It is followed by with or of before a person
and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an
accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to
before a thing. "Suspected for accomplice to the fire."
Dryden.
Syn. -- Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate;
coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty
knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal,
knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the
matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one
having offered them a fee for assenting.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (Rare): A cooperator.
Quotations
*Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! - Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, V-ii
- (Law): An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
Quotations
*And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason. - Johnson
Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing.
Quotations
*Suspected for accomplice to the fire. - Dryden
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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