CONVICT

p. n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
p.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

6.
v.

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.

7.
v.

To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.

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