Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CRIM'IN-AL
CRIM'IN-AL, a.
- Guilty of a crime; applied to persons.
- Partaking of a crime; involving a crime; that violates public law, divine or human; as, theft is a criminal act.
- That violates moral obligation; wicked.
- Relating to crimes; opposed to civil; as, a criminal code; criminal law. Crim. con. Criminal conversation; unlawful intercourse with a married woman.
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