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Definition of Perpetrate

1. Verb. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation. "They perpetrate him to write the letter"; "Pull a bank robbery"

Definition of Perpetrate

1. v. t. To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.

Definition of Perpetrate

1. Verb. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perpetrate

1. [v -TRATED, -TRATING, -TRATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perpetrate

Literary usage of Perpetrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"tration or attempt to perpetrate any of the forcible felonies would ordinarily be a murder at common law, yet, in any case where it was not, ..."

2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"And this deed I you dared to perpetrate in the very harbor of Charleston, within a few yards of the shore, un- blushingly, in the face of open day. ..."

3. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Conspiracy to perpetrate a fraud.—A conspiracy to perpetrate a fraud upon another is indictable at common law. And whether the party to be ..."

4. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1796)
"their age and country; and purposed to perpetrate their CHAP: crime at a season of hospitality, in the sanctuary of a ' Christian church, and at the very ..."

5. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... thus allowing them. he became a consenting party: but those .who perpetrate such crimes are reserved for a more severe visitation of divine vengeance. ..."

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