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(noun) - A verdict returned by the jury . . . by which it is found that a crime has been committed without specifying the criminal, or that a sudden or violent death has occurred, without assigning any cause.
--Edward Lloyd's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895
January 16, 2018