The act or omission that forms the physical part of a crime.
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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
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The act or omission that forms the physical part of a crime.
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Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
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Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…
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The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
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Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of brib…
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Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
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The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity;…
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Evil or wicked behavior or action.
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An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…
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The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
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A bird.
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The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
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False swearing.
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The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred;…
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The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated…
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The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent ag…
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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
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To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
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To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…
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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…
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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…
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The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
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The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.
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The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
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The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
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The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
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Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
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The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or o…
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To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of…
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