0 past simple and past participle of prosecute --
1 to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a law court, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime: --
2 to continue to take part in a planned group of activities, especially a war: --
But unlike purely criminal charges, the individual wronged (the husband or father) personally prosecuted the case and paid a fee to register it.
Those prosecuted explained that they had simply come to the city to visit a brother or uncle, or for private employment purposes.
He found himself prosecuted for sedition, and deserted by his political allies.
Of course these offences could be prosecuted only irregularly, but fines in some parishes were meted out.
Should a bicyclist wearing charcoal-gray clothes be prosecuted under the law?
This occurs only when the judicial system is highly inefficient, in the sense that the probability of being prosecuted lies below a threshold level.
It also tends to favour the more spectacular and public criminal purge prosecuted through the special purge courts.
Such documentary evidence forms an imperfect measure of the actual incidence of corruption, since many incidents are never discovered or prosecuted, especially in corrupt environments.
