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accessary

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accessary [əkˈsɛsərɪ]
n pl -ries
adj
(Law) Law a less common spelling of accessory
accessarily  adv
accessariness  n
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Noun1.accessary - someone who helps another person commit a crimeaccessary - someone who helps another person commit a crime
abetter, abettor - one who helps or encourages or incites another
accessory after the fact - a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony
accessory before the fact - a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration
accessory during the fact - a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
collaborator, henchman, partner in crime, confederate - someone who assists in a plot
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Adj.1.accessary - aiding and abetting in a crime; "he was charged with being accessory to the crime"
supportive - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"


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said she to him, that you can, without Pity, see me suffer so much Uneasiness; and, knowing the Sensibility of my Temper, can expose me to the Grief of being accessary to the Death of an unfortunate Man, guilty indeed of a too violent Passion, which merits a gentler Punishment, than that you doom him to?
95) Henry Fowler said that he wanted his Modern English Usage to "tell people that altogether is different from all together, or nail alright and all right to the counter, or distinguish accessary from accessory.
 
 
 
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