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Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man: such light as exists immediately before the rising of the sun or directly after its setting. Crescente malitia crescere debet et poena. 2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase. … [Read more...] about CREPUSCULUM

Latin, meaning With vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase. … [Read more...] about CRESCENTE MALITIA CRESCERE DEBET ET POENA

A term used in heraldry; it signifies the devices set over a coat of arms. … [Read more...] about CREST

In medical jurisprudence. A form of imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term is applied to similar states occurring elsewhere. … [Read more...] about CRETINISM

In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation. … [Read more...] about CRETINUS