Guil'ty, a.

(gĭlt'y), a. [compar. GUILTIER; superl. GUILTIEST.] [A-S. guilty, a party to an action. See GUILT.]

1Sense 1. Evincing guilt; justly exposed to penalty; criminal and ill-deserving; morally delinquent; wicked; corrupt;—used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.

They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66.

Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. Dryden.

2Sense 2. Conscious; cognizant. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

3Sense 3. Condemned to payment. [Obs. and rare.]

Dryden.