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Accessary Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ary

Accessary has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who helps another person commit a crime

2

Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.

Adjective
1

aiding and abetting in a crime

"he was charged with being accessory to the crime"

2

Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See accessory.

See Also
access accessarily contributing assistant accessariness accedes accessory actor
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
criminal
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
abettor accessory after the fact accessory before the fact accessory during the fact confederate

Origin

The word comes from Medieval Latin accessārius via Middle English. It originally meant something that is added or attached to a main thing.

Rhyming Words
ary bary vary mary dary gary cary wary nary fary viary neary weary spary ovary snary teary hoary leary beary
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