Convict /(kŏn*vĭkt")/

1. Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.]

   Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.

1. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
2. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

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.

   They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.

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.

4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.]

   A whole armado of convicted sail.