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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Convict \Con"vict\ (k[o^]n"v[i^]kt), noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Convict \Con*vict"\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Convict \Con*vict"\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
convict
noun
1: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: {con}, {inmate}, {jailbird}, {gaolbird}]
2: a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
verb: find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced" [ant: {acquit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "convict": Judas, POW, acquit, anathematize, assure, attaint, be convincing, betrayer, blacklist, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, cageling, captive, carry conviction, censure, chain gang, con, condemn, convert, convince, criminal, crook, damn, deceiver, denounce, denunciate, desperado, desperate criminal, detenu, doom, double-dealer, drive home to, ex-convict, excommunicate, felon, find guilty, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, inspire belief, internee, jailbird, lag, lawbreaker, lead to believe, lifer, loser, mobster, outlaw, parolee, pass sentence, pass sentence on, penalize, persuade, political prisoner, prisoner, prisoner of war, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, recidivist, repeater, satisfy, scofflaw, sell, sell one on, sentence, stir bird, swindler, talk over, thief, thug, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, traitor, trusty, two-timer, win over
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