Con‐vict″ (kŏn‐vĭkt″), 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... 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. 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.
A whole armado of convicted sail.
Shak.
Syn. — To confute; defect; convince; confound.