Convict

Definition of Convict

Con`vict´ Pronunciation: kǒn`vĭkt´

p. a.	1.	Proved or found guilty; convicted. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. - Milton.
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.
v. t.	1.	To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.] 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.
	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. A whole armado of convicted sail. - Shak.

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