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. --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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)