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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

flagitiosus

, fr.

flagitium

a shameful or disgraceful act, orig., a burning desire, heat of passion, from

flagitare

to demand hotly, fiercely; cf.

flagrare

to burn, E.

flagrant

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; – said of acts, crimes, etc.

Debauched principles and

flagitious

practices.

I. Taylor.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; – said of persons.

Pope.

–

Fla-gi′tious-ly

adv.

–

Fla-gi′tious-ness

Noun.

A sentence so

flagitiously

unjust.

Macaulay.

Adj.

[L. flagitium, a scandalous crime, probably from the root of flagrant.]

Deeply criminal; grossly wicked; villainous; atrocious; scandalous; as a flagitious action or crime.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; wicked; as a flagitious person.

Marked or infected with scandalous crimes or vices; as flagitious times.