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单词 complice
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complicen.

/ˈkɒmplɪs/
Forms: Also Middle English compliss, Middle English–1600s complyse, 1500s complise, complease.
Etymology: < French complice (14th cent. in Littré), < Latin complex, complicem closely connected, confederate, participant, < com- together + stem plic- fold: compare simplex, duplex, etc.
1. gen. One associated in any affair with another, the latter being regarded as the principal; an associate, confederate, comrade. Obsolete (having passed into the special sense 2, by which also most of the later instances of this are coloured.)
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > accomplice
complice1475
fedariea1616
complier1619
correspondent1639
right bower1829
cohort1952
1475 Bk. Noblesse 39 Be it the duke of Breteyne, the duke of Orliens, or any suche other his complisses.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. xi. 51 Bot thai with all thar complicis in fyght War dung abak.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 162 The liues of all your louing complices, Leaue on you health.
1625 W. Pemble Justification (1629) 42 Bellarmine and his complices dispute eagerly against justification by faith alone.
a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 190 The centinell brought me to the statholder..he and his complices strickly examined and searched me.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. vi. 24 such enemies as Chedorlaomer and his complices.
1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Complice, a Partner in an ill Action, an Accomplice.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §19. 40.
2.
a. spec. An associate in crime, a confederate with the principal offender. (From the frequent early use of the word in connection with crime, this sense became predominant by 1600, and was the only one recognised by Johnson in 1755.) archaic, the current word being accomplice n.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > one who assists
fellowa1382
accessory1414
accessary1451
confederate1495
confederator1536
snapperc1555
complice1581
accomplice?1589
assistor1601
socius criminis1602
fedariea1616
complier1619
particeps criminisa1634
correspondent1639
complicate1662
capper1753
palc1770
partner in crime1831
sidekick1893
side-kicker1894
ram1941
1471 Arriv. Edw. IV i. (Camden) By the traitorous means of his great rebel, Richard, Earl of Warwick, and his complices.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 12 Conspiracies..of the said Elizabeth, and other her complices.]
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 428 Iudas [of Galilee] was hanged together with his complises.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 v. i. 210 To quell these Traitors and their compleases.
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Complices, fellowes in wicked matters.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 43 The complices sould not be punissed before the principall malefactour.
1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 96 He was accused of being complice in the murder.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xx. 30 His pride startled at the tone In which his complice..Asserted guilt's equality.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) V. iii. 358 The French cabinet was unwilling to appear openly as the complice of the insurgents.
b. Said of things. Obsolete.
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1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. l. 381 That all such abuses as heretofore have been complices concerning this matter be clearly put away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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