abet

• What sort of crime had Sybil Dryden been prepared to abet, and what sort of crime had he been prepared to condone? —  The Ivory Dagger - Patricia WentworthMiss Silver 19
• There were aunts to run and fetch for, uncles to converse with, cousins to aid and abet or at the very least to turn a blind eye to as they paired off with other young people of opposite gender and sought out secluded nooks, especially those that sported mistletoe. —  Mary Balogh - Unforgiven
• Miss Brown sings hers in a joyful mood: we want her to show in it as much execution as she is capable of, which is pretty well; and, for variety, we want Mr. Simpson's hautboy to cut a figure, with replying passages, ;c., in the way of Fisher's ' M' ami, il bel idol mio ,' to abet which I have lugged in 'Echo,' who is always allowed to play her part. —  Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1
• If we are faced with some situation where our actions will abet or directly cause someone's death, we must not carry out those actions, regardless of whether they are, by some dry reading of the law, legal. —  AnalogSFF,April2006
• Unless this is quickly understood by the millions of people who will either kill, abet, or silently watch, the great Jewish Catastrophe of our times will soon overtake us … —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com

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