Con-vict'1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. CONVICTED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONVICTING.] [Lat. convincere, convictum, from con and vincere, to conquer. See CONVINCE.] 1. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision. They who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9. He [Baxter] ... had been convicted by a jury. Macaulay. 2. To prove or show to be false. [Obs.] Although not only the reason of any head, but experience of any hand, may well convict it, yet will it not by divers be rejected. Browne. 3. To show 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. Syn.—To confute; detect; convince; confound.