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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Convict \Con*vict"\, p.a. [L. convictus p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See {Convice}.] Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] --Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Convict \Con"vict\, 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. Syn: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal. 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]: convict n 1: a person serving a prison sentence [syn: {con}, {inmate}, {jailbird}, {gaolbird}] 2: a person convicted of a criminal offence v : find or declare guilty [ant: {acquit}]
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