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   Guilty (?), a. [Compar. Gultier (?); superl. Guiltiest.] [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.]
   1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment; as, “guilty of murder”.
   
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   They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66.
   
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   Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. Dryden.
   
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   2. Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, “a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.”
   
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   3. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.]  B. Jonson.
   
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   4. Condemned to payment. [Obs. & R.]  Dryden.
   
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