Verb

(prosecut)

(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.

to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot

* Milton

To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.

(legal) To charge, try.

To seek to obtain by legal process.

to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law

To pursue something to the end.

to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim

* Shakespeare

I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?

Verb

(head)

(charge)

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}