Crossword clues for abetting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abet \A*bet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Abetting.] [OF. abeter; a (L. ad) + beter to bait (as a bear), fr. Icel. beita to set dogs on, to feed, originally, to cause to bite, fr. Icel. b[=i]ta to bite, hence to bait, to incite. See Bait, Bet.]
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To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. ``The whole tribe abets the villany.''
--South.Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?
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To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense. [Obs.].
Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted.
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(Law) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
Syn: To incite; instigate; set on; egg on; foment; advocate; countenance; encourage; second; uphold; aid; assist; support; sustain; back; connive at.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who abets. vb. (present participle of abet English)
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Usage examples of "abetting".
And he has to answer for much more than aiding and abetting you with your plot to fool the old man.
I am charged with aiding and abetting his escape it seems to me that I have a right to know who he is.
Poitou, one Geraud Berlai, whom he charged Louis with abetting in depredations against him on the marches of Anjou.
The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.
UNMIK, with European Union assistance, did intervene - in setting up institutions and abetting economic legislation - it has done more harm than good.
The question of the moment: Why was FBI Special Agent Tom Jankle leaking to me about the Gardner heist just as the mayor was thinking he might be caught aiding and abetting his own son?
There was a warrant out now for her arrest and for Bob Trueman for aiding and abetting her.
Guizot afterwards justified his conduct by alleging that the English government was secretly abetting the interests of a Cobourg.
July 17, 1862, and which act and the joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.
Maclntyre is sowing religious division in the ranks, practicing rituals involving animal cruelty or non-consensual sexual acts, preaching Market Maoism or New Republicanism or otherwise aiding and abetting the Chinks or the Yanks, I warn you most seriously to not waste your time or mine.
Republican politicians and neoconservative hawks were hurling the same charges of harboring and abetting terrorists against Saudi Arabia and other U.
Ralph, kissing his wife on the nose, and congratulating Armstrong on his masterly performance as a second Jeeves, aiding and abetting his stupid master.
Seeing that I am charged with aiding and abetting his escape it seems to me that I have a right to know who he is.
Dunnet is a senior officer of the Special Branch of New Scotland Yard and a member of Interpol and he has accumulated enough evidence against you, for aiding and abetting criminals, to ensure that you'll spend the next few years in a remand home and Borstal.
That's aiding and abetting and accessory after the fact of armed robbery.