CONVICT (3)

Con‐vict″ (kŏn‐vĭkt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.] 1. 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. 2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. Sir T. Browne.
3. 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. 4. To defeat; to doom to destruction.
A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak. Syn. — To confute; defect; convince; confound.