Condemn /(?)/

Con·demn

Condemn

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Condemned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning

  1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
    Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
    Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
    — Job xxxiv. 17.
  2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
    The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
    — Matt. xii. 42.
  3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
    Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
    To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.
    And they shall condemn him to death.
    — Matt. xx. 18.
    The thief condemned, in law already dead.
    No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn.
  4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
    The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
    — 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
  5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
  6. To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. (Law)