convict
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Verb
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnvɪkt/
- (General American) enPR: kŏnʹvĭkt; IPA(key): /ˈkɑnvɪkt/
Audio (US); “convict” (noun): (file)
- Hyphenation: con‧vict
Verb
[edit]convict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)
- (transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
- Synonyms: sentence, (informal) disapprove
- He was a convicted felon.
- His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
- 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
- And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.
- (chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
- Synonym: convince
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to find guilty
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to convince (someone of a belief)
Noun
[edit]convict (plural convicts)
- (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
- Synonyms: assigned servant, con, government man, (historical) public servant
- A person deported to a penal colony.
- Synonym: penal colonist
- The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
- A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person convicted of a crime
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person deported to a penal colony
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