criminal intent
chiefly Law
noun
The intention of committing a criminal act; the knowledge that a criminal act which one commits is wrong.
Origin
Late 17th century.
- dictionary word
- dictograph
- dictum
- dictum de omni et nullo
- Dictum of Kenilworth
- dicty
- dictyate
- dictyogenous
- dictyonal
- dictyonalia
- dictyonine
- Dictyoptera
- dictyopteran
- dictyosome
- dictyospore
- that will be the day
- that will do
- that would be telling
- thaumatin
- thaumatrope
- thaumaturge
- thaumaturgic
- thaumaturgical
- thaumaturgist
- thaumaturgy