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   Condemn , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condemned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning .] [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.]
   To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
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   Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
   Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
   Shak.
   
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   Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
   Job xxxiv. 17.
   
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   To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
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   The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
   Matt. xii. 42.
   
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   To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
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   Driven out from bliss, condemned
   In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
   Milton.
   
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   To each his sufferings; all are men,
   Condemned alike to groan.
   Gray.
   
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   And they shall condemn him to death.
   Matt. xx. 18.
   
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   The thief condemned, in law already dead.
   Pope.
   
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   No flocks that range the valley free,
   To slaughter I condemn.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
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   The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
   2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
   
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   To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
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   (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
   Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.
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