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.]
  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.
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  convicted
       adj : pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the
             firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"
             [syn: condemned]