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   Convict , p. a. [L. convictus, p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.] Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
   Milton.
   
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   Convict , n.
   A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
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   A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
   Syn. -- Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.
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   Convict , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.]
   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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   He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
   Macaulay.
   
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   They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
   John viii. 9.
   
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   To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.]
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
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   Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
   Hooker.
   
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   To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.]
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   A whole armado of convicted sail.
   Shak.
   Syn. -- To confute; defect; convince; confound.
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