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Convict

Convict (convict)
p. a.(kn*v***ibreve]kt")
Con*vict"
p. a. [L. convictus, p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]
  1. Proved or found guilty; convicted.
    [Obs.] Shak.

    Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
    Milton.

Convict

Convict (convict)
n.(kn"v***ibreve]kt)
Con"vict
  1. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
  2. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

    Syn. -- Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.

Convict

Convict (convict)
v. t.(kn*v***ibreve]kt")
Con*vict"
v. t. [imp. *** p. p. Convicted] p. pr. *** vb. n. Convicting.]
  1. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged] to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

    He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
    Macaulay.

    They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
    John viii. 9.

  2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
    [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  3. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

    Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
    Hooker.

  4. To defeat; to doom to destruction.
    [Obs.]

    A whole armado of convicted sail.
    Shak.

    Syn. -- To confute; defect; convince; confound.













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