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Definitions of culprit in various dictionaries:
noun - someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
One charged with an offense or crime.
These words, said by the clerk of the crown in response to a not-guilty plea, meant, “Guilty: I am ready to aver our indictment.
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| a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed. |
| someone who perpetrates wrongdoing |
| A person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed. |
| One charged with an offense or crime. |
| One guilty of a fault or crime. |
| someone who has done something wrong: |
| a fact or situation that is the reason for something bad happening: |
| someone who has committed a crime or done something wrong: |
| A culprit is also anything that causes harm or trouble: |
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A culprit, under English law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an offence. In origin the word is a combination of two Anglo-French legal words, culpable: guilty, and prit or prest: Old French: ready. On the prisoner at the bar pleading not guilty, the clerk of the crown answered culpable, and states that he was ready (prest) to join issue. The words "cul. prist" were then entered on the roll, showing that issue had been joined. When French law terms were discontinued, the words were taken as forming one word addressed to the prisoner. * The formula "Culprit, how will you be tried?" in answer to a plea of "not guilty," is first found in the trial for murder of the 7th Earl of Pembroke in 1678. * Under this criminal law, the preferred term is defendant. * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Culprit". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge Univers |