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noun

Convict n.

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

A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Synonyms: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.

verb

Convict v. t. (past & past part. convicted; pres. part. convicting)

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." "They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one."

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. (Obs.)

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."

To defeat; to doom to destruction. (Obs.) "A whole armado of convicted sail."

Synonyms: To confute; defect; convince; confound.

adjective

Convict adj. Proved or found guilty; convicted. (Obs.) "Convict by flight, and rebel to all law."

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Etymology of 'Convict'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Convict" Quotes from Famous Books

... torn and ragged that they were hardly sufficient to cover him. They were then told that a pair of clogs would be served out to each of them the next morning at daybreak, when work would commence, but that now they were expected to turn in for the night, according to the rules governing this little convict settlement. The iron-roofed shed looked even more uninviting inside than outside. Down each side were ranged narrow platforms, which were divided into "beds" by narrow strips of wood about three inches in height, and all the covering allowed ...

— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood

... if they did act and did arrest Deede Dawson, it was certain no jury would convict on so strange a ...

— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon

... they have nothing but contempt. They cannot think of the criminal without bursting into tears. And, while they lay upon the rich man the guilty burden of his wealth, they charge the community with the full responsibility for the convict's misfortune. Such doctrines, cunningly taught, and read day after day by the degenerate and unrestrained, can only have one effect, and that effect, no doubt, the "editorials" of the Yellow Press will ...

— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley

... on he watched him keenly and earnestly. He heeded not the oaths, or the taunts, or the threats which flowed from his lips; but as word followed word, and gesture gesture, and look look, he became gradually convinced that the resemblance was more than imaginary—that, indeed, this blaspheming convict was one whom he had ...

— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed

... vaguely uncomfortable in her presence. There was, perhaps, not enough humility in her clear eyes, and they worked her to the breaking point. Yet so impeccable and businesslike was her conduct that they could never convict her of any infringement of rules. Little did these pompous invaders suspect how this slender capable girl with the hazel eyes was spicing the hours behind their backs, and drawing with nimble and irreverent pencil portraits of her ...

— Where the Sabots Clatter Again • Katherine Shortall

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