| 单词 |
convicted |
| 释义 |
convicted, ppl. a.|kənˈvɪktɪd|
[f. convict v. + -ed1. As pple. found already in Wyclif, but as adj. not till convict ppl. a. began to go out of use in this sense.]
1. Proved or found guilty; condemned.
1611Cotgr., Convaincu, conuicted, conuinced. 1641Milton Animadv. Pref., To justify a..convicted pseudepis copy of prelates. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 140/1 The proportion of convicted offenders to population..is as 1 to 850. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xv. 318 [Henry] was never known to pardon a convicted traitor of noble blood.
†2. Overcome, vanquished. Obs.
1595[see convict v. 7].
3. Convinced of sin; converted. (Cf. convict v. 4.) U.S.
1822M. B. Smith Let. 12 Oct. in 40 Yrs. Washington Soc. (1906) 159 The groans and sobs of the newly converted, or convicted as they call them. 1846J. J. Hooper Adv. Simon Suggs (1851) x. 124 By this time it had come to be generally known that the ‘convicted’ old man was Captain Simon Suggs the very ‘chief of sinners’ in all that region. 1885‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. 5 ‘The boys are convicted, then?’ he asked... ‘The boys hev got thar religion, too,’ she faltered. |
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