What does "convict" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  4. 5.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.
  5. 6.To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.

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