Convict

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.a. Proved or found guilty; convicted.

II. Convict ·noun A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

III. Convict ·vt To Defeat; to doom to destruction.

IV. Convict ·vt To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to Prove.

V. Convict ·vt To prove or show to be false; to Confute; to Refute.

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

VII. Convict ·vt To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

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