ACCESSARY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Accessary

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

Listen

Accessary

adjective

Aiding and abetting in a crime. Synonym: accessory.

See images of 'Accessary'

Etymology of 'Accessary'

Share |

"Accessary" Quotes from Famous Books

... which, well for us, did not break my hold (for if it had, the Ships which lay breast a breast had certainly sucked us under) when several on the Bridge, who saw us fall, brought others with Ropes and Lights to our Assistance; and especially my Brother Officer, who had been Accessary as well as Spectator of our Calamity; tho' at last a very small Portion of our Deliverance fell ...

— Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • Daniel Defoe

... the risk of my life can purchase me opportunities of distinction, and Catherine Seyton's saucy eye shall rest with more respect on the distinguished soldier, than that with which she laughed to scorn the raw and inexperienced page."—There was wanting but one accessary to complete the sense of rapturous excitation, and he possessed it by being once more mounted on the back of a fiery and active horse, instead of plodding along on foot, as had been the case during ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

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