Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Law To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court.
- intransitive verb To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn.
- intransitive verb To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
- intransitive verb To return a verdict of guilty in a court.
- noun A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
- noun A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prove or find guilty of an offense charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge to be guilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision: as, to
convict the prisoner of felony. - To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
- To confute; prove or show to be false.
- To show by proof or evidence.
- Proved or found guilty; convicted.
- Overcome; conquered.
- noun A person proved or found guilty of an offense alleged against him; espeeially,one found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision; hence, a person undergoing penal servitude; a convicted prisoner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Proved or found guilty; convicted.
- noun A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
- noun A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
- transitive verb To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
- transitive verb obsolete To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
- transitive verb To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
- transitive verb obsolete To defeat; to doom to destruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
find guilty - noun law A person convicted of a
crime by ajudicial body . - noun A person
deported to apenal colony . - noun A common name for the
sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
- noun a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- verb find or declare guilty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft.
Filmstalker: The Planet trailer online - Scottish Sci-Fi 2006
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But why rely on those generalizations when a convict is already being scrutinized at the individual level?
Cruel and Unusual 2004
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Oh well, the stir, or the pen, as they call it in convict argot, is a training school for philosophy.
Chapter 3 2010
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In CA, every first time drug possession convict is already offered out-of-prison treatment.
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Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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[Note, however, that some courts hold, controversially, that a pardon does not preclude the imposition of attorney discipline based on the underlying conduct, because a pardon “cannot work such moral changes as to warrant the assertion that a pardoned convict is just as reliable as one who has constantly maintained the character of a good citizen.”]
Discourse.net: Bush "Revokes" A Pardon (When Do Pardons Vest?) 2008
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Rourke will play a convict from a Mexican prison who is sold into the game, and 50 Cent the man employed to escort him to the bloody game.
Ray Winstone, Ray Liotta Play Russian Roulette With 50 Cent, Jason Statham In ‘13’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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It doesn't help that in spite of being a first-term convict serving a short sentence for bank robbery, Chaffee was a nice guy.
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Next time, he hears a murder report I hope he remembers that his Green River convict is enjoying the good life in Walla Walla.
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It doesn't help that in spite of being a first-term convict serving a short sentence for bank robbery, Chaffee was a nice guy.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
oroboros commented on the word convict
The convict was convicted anew.
November 23, 2007