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  1. 1. p.a. Proved or found guilty; convicted. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude. Source: opted
  4. 4. 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. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. t. To defeat; to doom to destruction. Source: opted
  8. 8. n. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense Source: wordnet
  10. 10. v. find or declare guilty Source: wordnet
  11. 11. Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton. 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. 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.] 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. Hooker. 4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak. Syn. -- To confute; defect; convince; confound. Source: webster
  12. 12. Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak.Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton. Source: adambom

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