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accomplice 音標拼音: [ək'ɑmpləs] n. 共犯,同謀 共犯,同謀 accomplice n 1: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan ( especially an unethical or illegal plan) [ synonym: { accomplice}, { confederate}] Accomplice \ Ac* com" plice\, n. [ Ac- ( perh. for the article a or for L. ad) E. complice. See { Complice}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. A cooperator. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. 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. " Suspected for accomplice to the fire." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See { Abettor}. [ 1913 Webster] 27 Moby Thesaurus words for " accomplice": a party to, abettor, accessary, accessory, accomplice in crime, ally, assistant, associate, coconspirator, cohort, collaborator, colleague, confederate, conspirator, copartner, cotenant, fellow, fellow conspirator, henchman, partaker, participant, participator, partner, party, shareholder, sharer, socius criminisACCOMPLICE, crim. law. This term includes in its meaning, all persons whohave been concerned in the commission of a crime, all particepes crimitis, whether they are considered in strict legal propriety, as principals in thefirst or second degree, or merely as accessaries before or after the fact. Foster, 341; 1 Russell, 21; 4 Bl. Com. 331; 1 Phil. Ev. 28; Merlin, Repertoire, mot Complice. U. S. Dig. h. t. 2. But in another sense, by the word accomplice is meant, one who notbeing a principal, is yet in some way concerned in the commission of acrime. It has been questioned, whether one who was an accomplice to asuicide can be punished as such. A case occurred in Prussia where asoldier, at the request of his comrade, had cut the latter in pieces; forthis he was tried capitally. In the year 1817, a young woman named Leruthreceived a recompense for aiding a man to kill himself. He put the point ofa bistouri on his naked breast, and used the hand of the young woman toplunge it with greater force into his bosom; hearing some noise he orderedher away. The man receiving effectual aid was soon cured of the wound whichhad been inflicted; and she was tried and convicted of having inflicted thewound, and punished by ten years' imprisonment. Lepage, Science du Droit, ch. 2 art. 3, Sec. 5. The case of Saul, the king of Israel, and his armorbearer, ( 1 Sam. xxxi. 4,) and of David and the Amelekite, ( 2 Sam. i. 2- 16,) will doubtless occur to the reader. |
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