单词 | to aid and abet |
释义 | > as lemmasto aid and abet to aid and abet Law: (a) transitive to help (a person) commit a crime, and thereby become accessory to it; (also) to act as accessory to (a crime); (b) intransitive to participate or assist in, and thereby become accessory to, a crime. Also in extended use, in non-legal contexts. Cf. aiding and abetting at aiding n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1636 J. Trussell Contin. Coll. Hist. Eng. 200 The French King had..given an affront to the King of England, in ayding and abetting Queene Margaret, and her trayterous complices against him. 1675 J. Brydall Jus Imaginis apud Anglos 50 The Murther of one Stone, whom one Nightingale feloniously murthered, and..the said Sir Henry was present, aiding and abetting. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 595 Aiding and abetting the five appealed and attainted persons, in their accroaching to them the royal power. 1840 New Monthly Mag. Sept. 69 His wife..aided and abetted him in his task by presiding over the waistcoating department herself. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 286 The invasion was aided and abetted by Richard's subjects. 1991 Daily Express 1 June 8/1 The pindown regime was the creation of one social worker, aided and abetted by department colleagues and superiors. 2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xvi. 122 I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure,..until..Eurycleia confessed that she alone had aided and abetted him. < as lemmas |
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