Definition of convict Convict

/kɑˈnvɪkt/ - [kanvikt] - con•vict

We found 21 definitions of convict from 7 different sources.

What does convict mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: convicts
convict - a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
		con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
		prisoner, captive a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
		lifer a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
convict - a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
		offender, wrongdoer a person who transgresses moral or civil law
		first offender someone convicted for the first time
Verb convicts, convicting, convicted
convict - find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"
		assoil, exculpate, exonerate, acquit, discharge, clear pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
		pass judgment, evaluate, judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
		pronounce, judge, label pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
		jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
		reconvict convict anew

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Wiktionary

convict (Noun)
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
convict (Noun)
A person deported to a penal colony .
convict (Noun)
A common name for the sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus , owing to its black and stripes.
convict (Verb)
To find guilty.
convict (Verb)
As a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime.
convict (Verb)
Informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

convict (p.a.)
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
convict (n.)
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
convict (n.)
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
convict (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.
convict (v. t.)
To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
convict (v. t.)
To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
convict (v. t.)
To defeat; to doom to destruction.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

convict
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
convict
To find guilty of a crime as a result of legal proceedings.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

convict
kon-vikt′, v.t. to prove guilty: to pronounce guilty.—n. Con′vict, one convicted or found guilty of crime, esp. one who has been condemned to penal servitude.—ns. Convic′tion, act of convincing: strong belief: a proving guilty: (theol.) the condition of being consciously convicted of sin; Con′victism, the convict system.—adj. Convict′ive, able to convince or convict.—Carry conviction, to bear irresistibly the stamp or proof of truth; Under conviction, in such a state of awakened consciousness. [From root of Convince.]

Wikipedia

A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". A convict is sometimes simply called a "con". After a conviction, convicts often become prisoners in a gaol. People convicted and sentenced but not sent to gaol are not usually called "convicts". An ex-convict (or short: ex-con) is a person who has been let out of prison.

Historical use.

Image:John Boyle O'Reilly.jpg|thumb|Photograph of convict John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) taken in 1866.

One use of the word means the huge numbers of prisoners who filled British gaols in the 1700's and early 1800s. Many were sent to the American colonies as cheap workers, but that stopped after the War of Independence.

British convicts were transported to the Georgia (US State) between 1733 and the American Revolution. After this, Britain looked to the newly discovered east coast of Australia to use as a penal colony. Convicts were transported to Australia in 1788, the very start of European settlement. They were used as cheap workers in 5 out of the 6 major colonies. Transportation was stopped in 1868. British convicts were also sent to Canada and India. France also sent convicts to French Guiana and New Caledonia. Russian criminals who were sent to Siberia can be called convicts.

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convict, verb, present, 1st person singular of convict (infinitive).
convict, verb (infinitive).
convict, noun, singular of convicts.
convict, adjective.

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