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Accessary

adjective
1.
Aiding and abetting in a crime.  Synonym: accessory.






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"Accessary" Quotes from Famous Books



... republican, and as such desired the downfall of the Consul; but he had also served under Napoleon, and learning at a late hour that the life of his old leader was to be sacrificed, remonstrated vehemently, and rather than be accessary to such extremities, gave the necessary information at the Tuileries. Moreau was forthwith arrested; but Pichegru lurked undiscovered in the heart of Paris until the 28th; six gens-d'armes then came upon his privacy ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart

... reason, he could have controlled the propensities which his sensibility engendered; but he would have been a poet of a different class: and certain it is, had that desirable restraint been early established, many peculiar beauties which enrich his verses could never have existed, and many accessary influences, which contribute greatly to their effect, would have been wanting. For instance, the momentous truth of the passage already quoted, 'One point must still be greatly dark,' &c. could not possibly have been conveyed with such pathetic force by ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... the King desires to hunt down. If indeed His Highness's mind is so obscured by anger, as to combine a rash expression and a deliberate plan of murder in the same degree of guilt; to condemn you unheard for one crime, and by implication make you accessary to another, can there be safety or honour in being his servant? Surely, my Allan's loyalty once arrayed his Prince with visionary excellence; or Walter acted like one of those unskilful surgeons, who convert a slight wound into a ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West



Words linked to "Accessary" :   accessory after the fact, malefactor, abettor, accessory during the fact, partner in crime, abetter, felon, henchman, supportive, collaborator, criminal, accessory before the fact, outlaw, crook, confederate



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