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2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: condemning adj : containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a condemnatory decree" [syn: {condemnatory}]
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