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n evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

ecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier.

An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.

avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.

The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals. Dr. prior.

A criminal. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

Guilty; criminal. [R.] Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. Abp. Bramhall.

To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason. He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer. Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift…

A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.

enata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.

a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

tting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

determine cases brought before them. In the U.S. the phrase is used to designate certain criminal courts.

Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels. Milton.

Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:

Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.

or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

y argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job xvi. 21.