Convicted

ppl. a. [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.

1611.  Cotgr., Convaincu, conuicted, conuinced.

1641.  Milton, Animadv., Pref. To justify a … convicted pseudepis copy of prelates.

1843.  Penny Cycl., XXV. 140/1. The proportion of convicted offenders to population … is as 1 to 850.

1858.  Froude, 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].