ACCOM'PLICE, noun [Latin complicatus, folded together, of con, with, and plico, to fold. See Complex and Pledge.] An associate in a crime; a partner or partaker in guilt. It was formerly used in a good sense for a co-operator, but this sense is wholly obsolete. It is followed by with before a person; as A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.