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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Convict \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
convicted
adj : pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the
firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"
[syn: {condemned}]
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