particeps criminis

American  

[pahr-tuh-seps krim-uh-nis] / ˈpɑr təˌsɛps ˈkrɪm ə nɪs /

noun

Law.

1. an accomplice in a crime.

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Etymology

Origin of particeps criminis

From Latin

Example Sentences

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particeps criminis

With rather cheerful sadness, it must be confessed, we became particeps criminis, and made a supper on the pork.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)

Smith was denounced by the legislature as particeps criminis in the destruction of the lives which had been lost on the "Hungarian."

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

"But, joking apart, this Black Maria is, so to speak particeps criminis, and the sooner we lose it the better."

From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by Wells, David Dwight

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

You are particeps criminis, and the partaker is as bad as the thief.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various