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convict
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A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court " or "a person serving a sentence in prison ". Convicts are often also known as " prisoners " or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts, especially ...
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n. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: con , inmate , jailbird , gaolbird ] a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence v. find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced" [ant: acquit ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convict \Con"vict\ (k[o^]n"v[i^]kt), n. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude. Syn: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Latin convictus , past participle of convincere "to 'overcome' in argument" (see convince ). Replaced Old English verb oferstælan . Related: Convicted ; convicting .
Usage examples of convict.
The convicted terrorist got up from his bed and approached the bars as the two agents presented Bureau IDs and identified themselves.
Only those convicted by the ecclesiastical courts could be anathematised, while excommunication was a matter of conscience and people could in theory excommunicate themselves.
The second of a Gorka, the father-in-law of an Ardea, he triumphs, the thief who should by rights be a convict!
Other sights were equally impressive, though Gavin made sure they were belowdecks when the Helena passed Gibbet Island, where the dry bones of four convicted pirates rattled in iron cages.
It was essentially what the Baltimore Four had done four years earlier, when all were convicted and Phil Berrigan got six years in prison.
Intensive canvassing of the area around the Biltmore had thus far yielded no verified sightings, the records of convicted sex loonies and registered sex offenders were still being combed, the four drool case confessors were still being held at City Jail awaiting alibi checks, sanity hearings and further questioning.
While there were vacant positions aplenty, none of those advertising for a clerk bookkeeper required a female bookkeeper who was a ticket of leave convict.
Melbourne was a melting pot of the dynamic and hopeless: the pioneers who wanted to carve a future out of the bushland, newly released convicts, dispossessed Aborigines stupefied with rum, government functionaries building a curriculum vitae to take elsewhere, speculators growing rich on credit, and speculators going bankrupt for the lack thereof.
At others I would find him on the campstool, sitting in his gray sleeping suit and with his cropped dark hair like a patient, unmoved convict.
In order to keep the Catholics under further control, an Act against Popish Recusants was passed in 1593 forbidding the convicted gentry from travelling more than five miles from their estates.
I added that if the cavaliere prided himself, against all evidence, upon being a gentleman, he was not at all likely to convict himself of being a ruffian.
In the early summer of 1968 West was arrested for stealing a cheque and using it to buy a record-player for the caravan, and on 10 June 1968 he was convicted at Cheltenham magistrates court on one count of theft and another of obtaining goods by deception.
The difficulty of obtaining Roman Catholic members of juries to convict in Ribband cases, even upon the clearest evidence, greatly impeded the course of justice in Ireland.
The accused, after having been convicted and sentenced to death for murder, filed his petition supported by affidavits of a codefendant, who, after pleading guilty and serving as a witness for the State had received a life sentence.
Farrell knew juries and he knew San Francisco, and you needed a lot more than they had on Levon Copes to convict anybody of murder here.