The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convict \Con*vict"\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.]
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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. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.]
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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.
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To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.]
A whole armado of convicted sail.
--Shak.Syn: To confute; defect; convince; confound.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of convict English)
Usage examples of "convicting".
We confess that the remarkable coincidences, the many convicting evidences, and the inexplicable silence on the part of the accused, as well as a total absence of any evidence for an alibi, were enough to warrant the bench of judges in assuming that in this man alone was centered the truth of the affair.
Her brother was in due course indicted and held for trial in large bail, but there was and is no prospect of convicting him for his crime so long as his sister remains in the voluntary exile to which she has subjected herself.
To-day the case is commonly cited as proof of the gullibility of juries and of the impossibility of convicting a rich man of a crime.
The story was a shocking one, yet the jury apparently never considered at all the possibility of convicting her, but on retiring to the j ury-room spent their time in discussing how much money they should present her on her acquittal.
Unless he had gone sheerly cuckoo, he couldn't hope to steal so much as a spoon that night, after his intentions had been so widely and openly proclaimed, without convicting himself on his own confession.
If people in Hatrack, who mostly liked Alvin, came to believe that by convicting him of stealing Makepeace’s plow they might keep him from being extradited to a state where he would surely be hanged, they might convict him for his own good.
If people in Hatrack, who mostly liked Alvin, came to believe that by convicting him of stealing Makepeace's plow they might keep him from being extradited to a state where he would surely be hanged, they might convict him for his own good.