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third-person singular simple present prosecutes, present participle prosecuting, simple past and past participle prosecuted
(transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against. quotations examples
To acquit themſelves and proſecute their foes
1667, John Milton, “Book SAMSON AGONISTES”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, line 898
(transitive, law) To charge, try. quotations examples
The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […]
1962 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 8
To seek to obtain by legal process. examples
(transitive) To pursue something to the end. examples