Convict — Defs

01 p. a. Proved or found guilty; convicted.

1.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.[Obs.]
“Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.” — Milton.

02 n. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

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.

03 v. t. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

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.]
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.