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2 definitions found 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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