单词 | in flagrante |
释义 | in flagranteadv. In the act of committing an offence. In later use: spec. in the act of having sexual intercourse, esp. of an adulterous nature. Cf. in flagrante delicto adv. ΚΠ 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 147 They that finde them may kill them without any offence In Flagranti [Fr. sans aucune coulpe, In flagranti]. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. viii. 190 All was done in Flagrante [Sp. en flagrante], there was no leisure to giue me torment, the cause was concluded. 1674 R. Strange Life S. Thomas Cantilupe xx. 241 A publique Incendiary was taken in flagrante, and deseruedly by the Lord of the Mannour, who had legall power, sentencd to the gallowes. 1708 W. Darrell Suppl. to 1st Pt. Gentleman Instructed ix. 244 You are heal'd, now Sin no more, least God take you away in flagrante, and leave not a Moment between the Offence and the Punishment. 1846 R. R. Kalley Let. in J. R. Tate Madeira (1847) ii. 34 When ruffians are arrested by the police ‘in flagrante’, in a British subject's house, they are forthwith set at liberty. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 17 At last she caught him in flagrante. 1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play i. 2 A shocked Font-le-Baume caught them in flagrante. 2009 Church Times 14 Aug. 24/1 Gesualdo caught his wife and her lover in flagrante, and brutally killed them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1604 |
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