CRIMINAL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Criminal

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/krˈɪmənəl/ Listen

adjective

Criminal adj.

Guilty of crime or sin. "The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God."

Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. "Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves."

Relating to crime; opposed to civil; as, the criminal code. "The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject... were in some cases liable to criminal process."

Criminal action (Law), an action or suit instituted to secure conviction and punishment for a crime.

Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; usually abbreviated, crim. con.

Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

noun

Criminal n. One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

See images of 'Criminal'

Etymology of 'Criminal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Criminal" Quotes from Famous Books

... you green enough not to know what I shall do if you don't get me out of this scrape, you varlet? They'll have quick ears at the criminal courts for what I have to ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... Natives. Far be it from me to assert that the natives only are carried away by the community feeling. A case in point is the violence of the European agitation over the "Ilbert Bill" of 1883, to permit trial of Europeans by native judges in rural criminal courts. Our question merely is: How has the new regime affected native ideas? Given then, say, a charge of assault upon a native by a European or Eurasian, or the reverse—a case by no means unknown—the native press and the class they represent ...

— New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century - A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments • John Morrison

... been definitely started. The province had been divided into nine divisions containing 33 districts. The Divisional Commissioners were superintendents of revenue and police with power to try the gravest criminal offences and to hear appeals in civil cases. The Deputy Commissioner of districts had large civil, criminal, and fiscal powers. A simple criminal and civil code was enforced. The peace of the frontier was secured by a chain of fortified outposts watching the outlets ...

— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie

... the kingdom of the truth. With all these facts staring him in the face, the attempt of any intelligent man to maintain the theoretical and ideal infallibility of all parts of these writings is a criminal blunder. Nor is there any use in loudly asserting the inerrancy of these books, with vehement denunciations of all who call it in question, and then in a breath admitting that there may be some errors and discrepancies ...

— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden

... have ever known. Inflexible in everything that concerned the honour of the service, he never pardoned wilful misbehaviour, because he knew that it was incompatible with military discipline; yet, when obliged to punish, he did it with such reluctance that he seemed to suffer almost as much as the criminal himself. But, if his reason imposed this just and necessary severity, his heart had taught him another lesson in respect to private distresses of his men; he visited them in their sickness, relieved their miseries, and was a niggard of nothing ...

— The History of Sandford and Merton • Thomas Day

More quotes...