accomplice 音标拼音: [ək'ɑmpləs]
n . 共犯,同谋
共犯,同谋
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 .]
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1913 Webster ]
Success unto our valiant general ,
And happiness to his accomplices ! --
Shak .
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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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Abettor ;
accessory ;
assistant ;
associate ;
confederate ;
coadjutor ;
ally ;
promoter .
See {
Abettor }.
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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 criminis ACCOMPLICE ,
crim .
law .
This term includes in its meaning ,
all persons who have been concerned in the commission of a crime ,
all particepes crimitis ,
whether they are considered in strict legal propriety ,
as principals in the first 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 not being a principal ,
is yet in some way concerned in the commission of a crime .
It has been questioned ,
whether one who was an accomplice to a suicide can be punished as such .
A case occurred in Prussia where a soldier ,
at the request of his comrade ,
had cut the latter in pieces ;
for this he was tried capitally .
In the year 1817 ,
a young woman named Leruth received a recompense for aiding a man to kill himself .
He put the point of a bistouri on his naked breast ,
and used the hand of the young woman to plunge it with greater force into his bosom ;
hearing some noise he ordered her away .
The man receiving effectual aid was soon cured of the wound which had been inflicted ;
and she was tried and convicted of having inflicted the wound ,
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 armor bearer , (
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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