- Convicted
- Convict Con*vict" (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), 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.
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He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. --John viii. 9. [1913 Webster]
2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
3. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. [1913 Webster]
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
A whole armado of convicted sail. --Shak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
