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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
convicted
adjective: pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal" [syn: {condemned}]
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