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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Condemn \Con*demn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condemned}; p. pr & vb n. {Condemning} (? or ?).] [L. condemnare con- + damnare to condemn: cf F. condamner. See {Damn}.] 1. To pronounce to be wrong to disapprove of to censure. 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. Syn: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Condemned \Con*demned"\, a. 1. Pronounced to be wrong guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: condemned adj 1: pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal" [syn: {convicted}] 2: officially and strongly disapproved; "the censured conflict of interest"; "her condemned behavior" [syn: {censured}] 3: taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain [syn: {appropriated}, {confiscate}, {confiscated}, {seized}, {taken over}] 4: officially pronounced unfit for use or consumption; "a row of condemned bulildings"
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