convict

[Con*vict·]

A convict is a person who has been found guilty convicted of a crime and is serving a sentence in prison.

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Proved or found guilty; convicted.

Noun
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

Noun
a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence

Verb
find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"

p.a.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.

n.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

n.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

v. t.
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

v. t.
To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

v. t.
To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

v. t.
To defeat; to doom to destruction.

Convict

Con*vict" , p.a. [L. convictus, p.p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.] Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak.

Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.

Convict

Con"vict , n. 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. Syn. -- Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.

Convict

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.

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.] Sir T. Browne. 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.

Syn. -- To confute; defect; convince; confound.

Proved or found guilty; convicted.

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

To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

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Usage Examples

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

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Other Usage Examples

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.