Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Convict

Convict (kon*vikt") , past participle (adjectival)

[Latin convictus, past participle of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.]

Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. — Milton

Convict (kon"vikt) , noun

1.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
2.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Convict (kon*vikt") , transitive verb

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 [Baxter]... 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. [Obsolete] — 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. [Obsolete]
A whole armado of convicted sail. — Shakespeare