convict

Definitions

1. 1.A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
2. 2.A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
3. 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. 4.2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
5. 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. 6.To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime called?
• What is a criminal sentenced to penal servitude called?
• What is 2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak called?