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Convict

02319 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. mark [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. mark [Obs.]A whole armado of convicted sail.
Shak.Syn. -- To confute; defect; convince; confound.

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