NOUN
- someone who helps another person commit a crime
ADJECTIVE
-
aiding and abetting in a crime
he was charged with being accessory to the crime
How To Use accessary In A Sentence
- It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than by the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification. Religio Medici
- Wife should do as she says, and go with her; I should in some Degree be accessary to the parting Man and Wife. A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
- I have so much grief, that you should attempt to do any injury to this poor girl, and especially in my chamber, that I should think myself accessary to the mischief, if I was not to take notice of it. Pamela
- If more delays were thrown in his way, that information might come too late, and he would make all who were accessary to such delay responsible for the consequences. The Surgeon's Daughter
- But she protested she would not be accessary to so much after-repentance; and left her. Camilla
- There was wanting but one accessary to complete the sense of rapturous excitation, and he possessed it by being once more mounted on the back of a fiery and active horse, instead of plodding along on foot, as had been the case during the preceding days. The Abbot
- Reporter some deeply disturbing, flat closed all accessary links.
- I fear your fatal openness will make you suspected as accessary, let us be ever so cautious. Pamela
- Then, since one must be miserable, 'tis fit that I sustain the whole Blow alone, and not endeavour to involve her, who has no Way been accessary; then be obedient to thy Exilius
- Kerouac was arrested as an accessary to the killing in 1944 and was put in a Bronx jail but he was freed after his girlfriend, Edie Parker, stood bail. March 2008