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noun

Accomplice n.

A cooperator. (R.) "Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices!"

(Law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing. "Suspected for accomplice to the fire."

Synonyms: Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor.

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"Accomplice" Quotes from Famous Books

... know. It's the trader, the accomplice of Rodrigo. Sacre nom, tell me, where is she? We can't find ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... brink of the terrible precipice which yawned before him? The whole hideous part as played by Daumon was no longer a sealed book to him. She whom he had looked on as a pure and innocent girl was merely the accomplice of a scheming villain like the Counsellor, and after exciting his hatred and anger almost to madness, had placed the poison which was to take his father's life in his hands. A cold shiver ran through him as he realized this, and all his ardent love ...

— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau

... to assume anything of the kind—there are all sorts of so-called accidents. But Miss Faith! if you look so frightened I shall begin to think you are an accomplice! What do you know about it?" ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... forth in something like shrieks, making the student start, that is altogether a different business. The lady outside, who evidently had multiplied herself—unless it was conceivable that the serious Simmons had made himself her accomplice—had taken the cleverest way of showing that she was not to be beat by any passive resistance of busy man, though not even an audible conversation with Simmons would have startled or disturbed his master, to whom ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

... we want to waste time here, Lord Trask? The Enterprise has obviously gone somewhere else. She was still in hyperspace when Captain Valkanhayn and his accomplice arrived here." ...

— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper

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