Definition of Accomplice

Accident

ACCOMPLICE noun

	One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Accord

Regular definition:

ACCOMPLICE:
??k?mpl?s n. a partner in a crime or wrongdoing. [ME and F complice (prob. by assoc. with ACCOMPANY), f. LL complex complicis confederate: cf. COMPLICATE]

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