Word Meanings - ABETMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

Related words: (words related to ABETMENT)

• ABETTAL
  Abetment.
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• TREASONABLE
  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
• CRIME
  which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
• CRIMELESS
  Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
• TREASONOUS
  Treasonable. Shak. The treasonous book of the Court of King James. Pepys.
• TREASON
  trahison, L. traditio a giving up, a delivering up, fr. tradere to 1. The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty;
• ABETMENT
  The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.
• CRIMEFUL
  Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. Shak.
• FALSICRIMEN
  The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
• OUTREASON
  To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.
• SCRIMER
  A fencing master. Shak.