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.'

I had the great good luck not long ago to catch that slave in flagrante delictonever mind what he was doing; that is another story

Sed si flamma vorax miseras incenderit aedes, Unica flagrantes tunc sepelire salus.

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. flagrante bello [Lat.], in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth; at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.

Adv. in flagrante delicto

Tops and roots had been demolished alike, and about as much wasted as had been consumed, Kitty was found, flagrante delictu, nibbling at the beans, which, by this time, were dead ripe.

The piece was probably composed flagrante odio, for it occurs in the Introduction to "The Tale of a Tub," which was written about 1692.

An Irishman in the Newcastle district once caught a bear flagrante delicto, dragging a hog over the walls of the pew.

Oddly enough, the crime of adultery with a married woman was considered one against a cluster of kindred, and not against the husband; for if he caught the culprits in flagrante delictu and killed the wife, he lost his own life!

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.