Con*vict" (?), 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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Con"vict (?), 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.
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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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