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CONVICT
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
(noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
convict
(noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
convict
(verb) find or declare guilty; “The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
convict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)
(transitive) to find guilty
as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something
informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act
(esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)
Synonyms
• (legal crime) sentence
• (informal) disapprove
Noun
convict (plural convicts)
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Synonyms
• (person convicted of crime): assigned servant, con, government man, public servant
• (person deported to a penal colony): penal colonist
Source: Wiktionary
Con*vict", p.a. Etym: [L. convictus, p.p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]
Definition: Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
Con"vict, n.
1. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
2. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Syn.
– Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.
Con*vict", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Convicted; p.pr. & vb.n. Convicting.]
1. 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. Macaulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.
2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
3. 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. Hooker.
4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.
Syn.
– To confute; defect; convince; confound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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