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verb
- 1. declare (someone) to be guilty of a criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law: "the thieves were convicted of the robbery"
noun
- 1. a person found guilty of a criminal offence and serving a sentence of imprisonment: "two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint"
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Mar 27, 2015 · Update. For those who think that being indicted is less severe than being convicted, you may want to become familiar with the process and its consequences, as described in Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime (Glen Reynolds, Columbian Law Review, July 8, 2013) on how prosecutors might pick the laws they choose to indict under in order to obtain likely conviction.
Use of convicted as a close synonym of convinced or opinionated is rare, but certainly not unknown. For example, in The Gondoliers, as Grand Inquisitioner Don Alhambra del Bolero tries to overcome objections of Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri against one of them being King, the term is used in this sense, among others:
Feb 6, 2014 · I had actually thought of ex-convict too, but felt that maybe it was a bit informal or slang. It seems you are right, and it is the commonly accepted term. – crush
Mar 8, 2019 · That being that term (abbreviation) originates from South Australia - which wasn't a convict settlement but a free settlers area. South Australia, being 'free' - was desperate to attract 'Persons Of Means' - bricklayers, carpenters, farmers etc, all to provide for the (seemingly) self sufficient growing population.
Mar 3, 2023 · Over the past fifty years or so, Merriam-Webster has published a bookshelf's worth of specialized dictionaries: the Collegiate Dictionary, which is an abridged version of the very large Third New International Dictionary (originally published in 1961); the Dictionary of Synonyms (very similar to the original 1941 edition from MW and focusing on distinctions in meaning that are often more precise than everyday usage would tend to support); a Dictionary of English Usage (largely dedicated to ...
Lighter speculates that it may be rooted in the dialect Scandinavian verb lam, as in the 1525 ''his wife sore lamming him,'' meaning ''to beat, pound or strike.'' Mark Twain used it twice: ''lamming the lady'' in 1855 and ''lam like all creation'' in 1865, both clearly meaning ''to beat.'' The suggested connection is that to avoid a feared ...
Sep 25, 2023 · What connection (if any) is there in Australian slang between 'dinkum' and 'dink' (meaning a ride on bicycle handlebars)? 9 What is the origin of "deadly" as "excellent" in Irish and Australian English?
Jan 21, 2013 · The OED has the verb as Australian and New Zealand slang from 1955 (the quotations use blueing and blued), and a noun blue as Australian and New Zealand slang (an argument, quarrel, fight, brawl) from 1944 which they suggest may be from to turn the air blue, meaning to swear.
I know you are trying to agree with the asker with a "yes" response. But the truth is, when answering a polar question, a native Engligh speaker would always reply to the polarity used in the question instead of the truth-value of the situation.
But, I have already employed a "hack sansal" from among the dispersed, who serves me as a drogoman, broker, footpage, groom, scullian, bottle-washer, aid du corps and physician : who was born in Gibraltar, is free of London, a convict from Ireland, a burgomaster of Holland : was circumcised in Barbary; was a spy for the Devil among the Apostles at the feast of Penticost, and has the gift of tongues : has travelled in all Europe, and will undoubtedly be hung in America, for I intend to take ...
