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
- 2.A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
- 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.
- 4.2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
- 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.
- 6.To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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