8 examples of delicto in sentences
You watched by the marshy pool, and caught the 'peeper' in the act, took him 'in flagrante, delicto,' as the lawyers say, and thus ended the theoretical discussion about the 'peepers.'
He would be caught in flagrante delicto, and, with a heavy sentence hovering over him, he would probably be induced to name his accomplice.
certainly &c adj.; for certain, certes [Lat.], sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto [Lat.], sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth &c (truly) 494; at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute
in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto [Lat.]; while one's hand is in.
Adv. in flagrante delicto
Phr. nemo bis punitur pro codem delicto [Lat.].
An Irishman in the Newcastle district once caught a bear flagrante delicto, dragging a hog over the walls of the pew.
If we take an activity-situation at its face-value, it seems as if we caught in flagrante delicto the very power that makes facts come and be.