See Also: Culpable(money)
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Culpable Ignorance(law)
NIENT CULPABLE(law)

culpable (iou)



culpable adjective & noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French coupable from Latin culpabilis, from culpare to blame, from culpa fault, blame: see -ABLE.]
A. adjective.
Guilty (of, in an offence), criminal; deserving punishment. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
culpable homicide Scots Law homicide not amounting to murder.
G. P. R. James The greatest crime of which a man could render himself culpable.
Foll. by of: deserving, liable to, (punishment, judgement, etc.). LME-E17.
Deserving censure; blameworthy. L16.
Hobbes What circumstances make an action laudable, or culpable.
B. noun. A guilty person, a culprit. ME-M18.
culpa'bility noun L17.
culpableness noun LME.
culpably adverb in a culpable manner, to a culpable degree M17.