Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton.
2. A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Syn: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.
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.