Con*vict" (k&obreve;n*v&ibreve;kt"), 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.
Con"vict (k&obreve;n"v&ibreve;kt), n.
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.
Con*vict" (k&obreve;n*v&ibreve;kt"), p. a. [L.
convictus, p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]
Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak.
Convict by flight, and rebel to
all law.
Milton.
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