Definitions for Culprit
ˈkʌl prɪtcul·prit

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. perpetrator, culpritnoun

   someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. culpritnoun

   The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.

   I tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit; it should work now.

2. Etymology: From culpa, fault via cul prit

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Culpritnoun

   A man arraigned before his judge.

   Etymology: about this word there is great dispute. It is used by the judge at criminal trials, who, when the prisoner declares himself not guilty, and puts himself upon his trial, answers; Culprit, God send thee a good deliverance. It is likely that it is a corruption of Qu’il paroît, May it so appear, the wish of the judge being that the prisoner may be found innocent.

   The knight appear’d, and silence they proclaim;
   Then first the culprit answer’d to his name;
   And, after forms of law, was last requir’d
   To name the thing that woman most desir’d. Dryden.

   An author is in the condition of a culprit; the publick are his judges: by allowing too much, and condescending too far, he may injure his own cause; and by pleading and asserting too boldly, he may displease the court. Matthew Prior, Solomon. Pref. to.

WikipediaRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Culprit

   A culprit, under English law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an offence. In origin the word is a combination of two Anglo-French legal words, culpable: guilty, and prit or prest: Old French: ready. On the prisoner at the bar pleading not guilty, the clerk of the crown answered culpable, and states that he was ready ("prest") to join issue. The words "cul. prist" were then entered on the roll, showing that issue had been joined. When French law terms were discontinued, the words were taken as forming one word addressed to the prisoner.The formula "Culprit, how will you be tried?" in answer to a plea of "not guilty," is first found in the trial for murder of the 7th Earl of Pembroke in 1678.Under current criminal law, the preferred term is defendant.

ChatGPTRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. culprit

   A culprit is a person or thing responsible for an offense, fault, or crime. It refers to someone or something that has committed a wrongdoing or unwanted action.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Culprit

   one accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge

2. Culprit

   one quilty of a fault; a criminal

3. Etymology: [Prob. corrupted for culpate, fr. Law Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See Culpable.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Culprit

   A culprit, under English law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an offence. In origin the word is a combination of two Anglo-French legal words, culpable: guilty, and prit or prest: Old French: ready. On the prisoner at the bar pleading not guilty, the clerk of the crown answered culpable, and states that he was ready to join issue. The words "cul. prist" were then entered on the roll, showing that issue had been joined. When French law terms were discontinued, the words were taken as forming one word addressed to the prisoner. The formula "Culprit, how will you be tried?" in answer to a plea of "not guilty," is first found in the trial for murder of the 7th Earl of Pembroke in 1678. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.. Encyclopædia Britannica. Cambridge University Press. Under modern criminal law, the preferred term is defendant.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Culprit

   kul′prit, n. one in fault: a criminal: (Eng. law) a prisoner accused but not yet tried. [From the fusion in legal phraseology of cul. (culpable, culpabilis), and prit, prist (O. Fr. prest), ready. Not culpate—law L. culpatus, a person accused.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Culprit in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Culprit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Culprit in a Sentence

1. Don Boyd:

   The kinds of income that are kind of driving this are particularly capital gains related to the stock market. If you had to find a No. 1 culprit, that's it.

2. Alessio Fasano:

   Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

3. Donald Trump:

   Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed !

4. Meghan Markle:

   The Sussexes accused members of the royal family of being concerned about how dark The Sussexes baby was going to be, but have refused point blank to name the culprit.

5. Yeb Sano:

   What is clear is that the common culprit across the globe is the burning of fossil fuels -- coal, oil and gas -- worsened by the cutting down of our forests, what we need to see is our leaders thinking seriously about our health and the climate by looking at a fair transition out of fossil fuels while telling us clearly the level of our air quality, so that steps can be taken to tackle this health and climate crisis.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Culprit
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Culprit
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Culprit
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culprit
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Culprit
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Culprit
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Culprit