单词 | culprit |
释义 | culpritn. 1. Law. Used only in the formula ‘Culprit, How will you be tried?’ formerly said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner indicted for high treason or felony, on his pleading ‘Not guilty’.Its first recorded use is in the Trial of the Earl of Pembroke for murder in 1678: it does not occur in the Trial of the Regicides 1662, nor in the various State Trials of 1663, 1664, 1669. Its original force was formally to join issue with the defendant's plea of ‘Not guilty’, and to demand trial and judgement; but this was perhaps forgotten in 1678. ΚΠ 1678 State Trials (1810) VI. 1320/2 Clerk of Crown. Are you guilty, or not guilty? Earl. Not guilty. Cl. of Cr. Culprit, how will you be tryed? Earl. By my Peers. Cl. of Cr. God send you a good deliverance. 1684 Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation A. Sidney 6. Clerk of the Crown. Art thou Guilty, or not Guilty? Col. Sidney. Not Guilty. Clerk of the Crown. Culprit, how wilt thou be tryed? Col. Sidney. By God and my Country. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 197 If the Prisoner answer not guilty, the Clerk saith, Culprist, [(i.e.) Culpabilis es, paratus sum verificare] How wilt thou be tried?—and the Prisoner must answer,—By God and the Country.—Clerk saith, God send thee a good Deliverance. 2. Hence assumed to mean, Prisoner at the bar; he who is arraigned for a crime or offence; the accused. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > person accused or indicted accuseda1500 appellee1531 indictee1531 panel1555 culprit1700 charge1859 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Wife of Bathe's Tale in Fables 489 Then first the Culprit answer'd to his Name. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity Pref., in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) An author is in the condition of a culprit: the public are his judges. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 197 ‘Well, culprit’, said the governor..‘What have you to say for yourself?’ 1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 242 But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. 3. An offender, one guilty of a fault or offence.[A change of sense, apparently due to popular etymology, the word being referred directly to Latin culpa fault, offence.] ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > wrongdoer > [noun] guilter12.. misdoera1325 trespasser1362 transgressor1377 offendera1450 wrongerc1449 misruler1450 wrongdoerc1450 delinquent1484 committer1509 violater1523 faulter1535 violator?1535 exceeder1625 misfeasor1631 tortfeasor1658 misactor1659 culprit1769 disorderly1852 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > evil-doer > offender or transgressor guilter12.. trespasser1362 transgressor1377 prevaricatora1425 surfeitera1425 offendera1450 delinquent1484 committer1509 violater1523 faulter1535 violator?1535 offendent1580 peccant1621 exceeder1625 moocher1675 culprit1769 sinner1809 1769 Serious Considerations Late Decision House of Commons xxii. 100 [He had not] rendered himself a Culprit too ignominious to sit among them. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. iv The fled Hungarian, Who seems the culprit. 1890 M. Holroyd Mem. G. E. Corrie ii. 11 He..always took care..to send away the offender feeling himself to be a culprit not a martyr. 4. attributive. Π 1750 W. Whitehead Roman Father Epil. (R.) Like other culprit youths, he wanted grace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1678 |
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