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Definition: Corpus Delicti |
Corpus DelictiNoun1. The body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Corpus Delicti (Latin). The fundamental fact that a crime has really been committed; thus finding a murdered body is "corpus delicti" that a murder has been committed by someone. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Corpus delicti. |
Lawsuit | Pleadings; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal; bill of right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter, surrejoinder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corpus Delicti |
| Non-English Usage: "Corpus Delicti" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (corpus delicti). |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
corpus delicti | 9 |
corpus delicti discography | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "corpus delicti"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | corpus delicti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | corpus delicti, feiten, bewijsstuk (document in proof, document in support, documentary evidence, evidence, exhibit, proof, source document, supporting documents, voucher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corps du délit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Corpus delicti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σώμα του εγκλήματος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orpuscay elictiday состав преступления (corpus delecti). (various references) cuerpo del delito. (various references) somut delil, kurbanın cesedi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: clitorides, coscripted, pedicurist, proclitics, solicitude, uricotelic. | |
-4 letters: circuited, cloudiest, clupeoids, codirects, corpuscle, courtside, cricetids, croupiest, crudities, delicious, delirious, depictors, dipterous, diuretics, doleritic, ecliptics, elicitors, idiolects, licorices, occulters, occupiers, outpriced, outprices, peridotic, pleuritic, poulticed, poultices, poultries, proclitic, pulicides, ridicules, sclerotic, solicited, spirituel, sporicide, supercoil, tricuspid, triploids, tripodies, utilidors. | |
-5 letters: circlets, circuits, citreous, cleidoic, clitoric. | |
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