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e against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson.

Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. [Obs.] Shak.

Free from crime; innocent. Shak.

The crime of falsifying.

A fencing master. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

panying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

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.

To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

cot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

cott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

ral or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

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.

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.