Flagitous

The Attorney-General declared, that, without the aid of these bills, it would be impracticable to put a stop to such flagitous proceedings.

This was a period in which the ideas of witchcraft had caught fast hold of the minds of mankind; and those accusations which, by the enlightened part of the species, would now be regarded as worthy only of contempt, were then considered as charges of the most flagitous nature.

It was one of the most flagitous schemes ever adopted to give party views a sacred sanction; the ‘translator’ amplifying wherever he thought an opportunity was presented for introducing latter-saint theology.