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Definition of Prosecuted
1. prosecute [v] - See also: prosecute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosecuted
Literary usage of Prosecuted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... prosecuted in the circuit court a suit upon the claim. ... unless such suit
might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contente if no ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"The term "express malice" used In this connection means malice towards the
particular person who was prosecuted, as distinguished from that malice which the ..."
3. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"For this offence the Primate insisted that he should be prosecuted, ... i • -ITTI
i • i %ITI . prosecuted But more serious consequences were at hand. ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1827)
"COUNSEL FOR PERSONS prosecuted ... Mr. George Lamb, in asking for leave to bring
in a bill for the purpose of allowing persons prosecuted for Felony, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... it admits of few general conclusions other than that we need much more extended
investigations than have heretofore been prosecuted, in order to reach ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The divisions of Christianity suspended the ruin of Paganism ;m and the holy war
against the infidels was less vigorously prosecuted by princes and bishops ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... being instructed in the former by Eschmann-Dumur and in the latter by Blanchet.
At Strassburg he prosecuted his studies under Blumer, ..."
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