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Definition of Convict
1. Verb. Find or declare guilty. "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"
Entails: Evaluate, Judge, Pass Judgment
Specialized synonyms: Reconvict
Generic synonyms: Judge, Label, Pronounce
Antonyms: Acquit
Derivative terms: Conviction
2. Noun. A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.
Specialized synonyms: Lifer, Trusty
Generic synonyms: Captive, Prisoner
3. Noun. A person who has been convicted of a criminal offense.
Definition of Convict
1. p. a. Proved or found guilty; convicted.
2. n. A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
3. 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.
Definition of Convict
1. Verb. (transitive) To find guilty ¹
2. Noun. (legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body. ¹
3. Noun. A person deported to a penal colony. ¹
4. Noun. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Convict
1. to prove guilty [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convict
Literary usage of Convict
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Moreover, the espouse of the Australian convict establishments was enormous, and
some change iu system was inevitable. These were the conditions that ..."
2. Labor and the Common Welfare by Samuel Gompers (1919)
"convict LABOR AND PRISON REFORM The chief argument of those who exploit the labor
of convicts under the contract system and those who defend the exploiters ..."
3. Journal by Texas Legislature. Senate, House of Representatives, Legislature (1913)
"It shall be the duty of the Prison Commission, acting by and through its manager,
to open and keep an individual account with each and every convict, ..."
4. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"Whenever a convict shall have received four merit marks in any period of six
months, he shall be entitled to a credit of one day upon his time for each of ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward by Thomas Frederick Tout (1906)
"The first convict establishments were at Sydney and Norfolk Island, but another
settlement was founded on Van Diemen's Land in 1805, and in 1807, ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"SOLUTION OF THE convict LABOR PROBLEM. This is a subject offering a wide range for
... All sorts of schemes and theories are advanced to reduce convict ..."
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