flagrante delicto

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fləˌɡɹæn.teɪ dɪˈlɪk.təʊ/

Adverb

flagrante delicto (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of in flagrante delicto
    • 1861, Charles Reade, chapter XXXVII, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
      But there was still a pretty show. A thief's hand struck off flagrante delicto; a murdered woman's hair; the Abbot's axe, and other tools of crime.
    • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in The Misadventures Of John Nicholson, New York: John W. Lovell, page 13:
      And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene; and the party, taken flagrante delicto, with their glasses at their elbow, were seized, marched up to the police office, and all duly summoned to appear as witnesses in the consequent case against that arch-shebeener, Colette.
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