Condemn

Definition of Condemn

Con`demn´

v. t.	1.	To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. [imp. & p. p. Condemned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning (? or ).] Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. - Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? - Job xxxiv. 17.
	2.	To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. - Matt. xii. 42.
	3.	To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; - with to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. - Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. - Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. - Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. - Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. - Goldsmith.
	4.	To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty. The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. - 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
	5.	To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
	6.	(Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

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