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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

... answer of the French would be, "We are not making war in order to force you to admit slaves into the Mauritius. By all means keep them out. By all means punish every man, French or English, whom you can convict of bringing them in. What we complain of is that you have confounded the innocent with the guilty, and that you have acted towards the representative of our government in a manner inconsistent with the law of nations. Do not, in ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... deadlier his dream—a quenchless flame, For which no dungeon fastness can be built . . . You have but made the convict half divine, Crowned Truth with martyrdom, yourselves with shame; Not he, but you are branded deep with guilt; His cell is holier than ...

— Bars and Shadows • Ralph Chaplin

... Accursed convict! Febrer was not sure of the motive of his fury, but it was something spontaneous. He meant to ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... up in a stockade at night and to pay for the expense of a recapture in case they attempted to escape. She had heard much of the practice of peonage, how that planters and contractors would enter into collusion with magistrates and convict innocent Negroes of crimes in order that they might get Negro laborers by the paying of fines assessed on these trumped up charges. She had read accounts of investigations of the prison system of the South, showing ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... light, the scab, who gives more labor power for a certain price than his fellows, is not so generous after all. He is no more generous with his energy than the chattel slave and the convict laborer, who, by the way, are the almost perfect scabs. They give their labor power for about the minimum possible price. But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the ...

— War of the Classes • Jack London

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