2. (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
3. (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
4. (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
5. (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
6. (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
7. (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.