condemn

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v condemn declare or judge unfit for use or habitation "The building was condemned by the inspector"
  • v condemn express strong disapproval of "We condemn the racism in South Africa","These ideas were reprobated"
  • v condemn pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
  • v condemn demonstrate the guilt of (someone) "Her strange behavior condemned her"
  • v condemn appropriate (property) for public use "the county condemned the land to build a highway"
  • v condemn compel or force into a particular state or activity "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
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• Interesting fact: General Robert E. Lee was not a slaveholder and never believed in slavery. He never believed in secession from the United States and strongly condemned it. He decided to lead the armies of the South because he wanted nothing to happen to his beloved Virginia.
• • Condemn To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned .
  • Condemn To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. "The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver."
  • Condemn To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. "The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it."
  • Condemn (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
  • Condemn To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. "Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.""To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.""And they shall condemn him to death.""The thief condemned , in law already dead.""No flocks that range the valley free,
    To slaughter I condemn ."
  • Condemn To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. "Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
    Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.""Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?"
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• Interesting fact: In ancient Greece the custom of allowing a condemned man to end his own life by poison was extended only to full citizens. Condemned slaves were instead beaten to death.
• • condemn To pronounce judgment against; express or feel strong disapprobation of; hold to be positively wrong, reprehensible, intolerable, etc.: used either of persons or things, with as, for, or on account of before an expressed ground of condemnation: as, to condemn a person for bad conduct, or as (sometimes colloquially for) a blackguard; to condemn an action for or on account of its injurious tendency.
  • condemn To serve for the condemnation of; afford occasion for condemning: as, his very looks condemn him.
  • condemn To convict: with of.
  • condemn To pronounce to be guilty, as opposed to acquit or absolve; more specifically, to sentence to punishment; utter sentence against judicially; doom: the penalty, when expressed, being in the infinitive, or a noun or noun-phrase preceded by to: as, to condemn a person to pay a fine, or to imprisonment.
  • condemn [Formerly the expression to condemn in a fine was used.
  • condemn To demonstrate the guilt of, by comparison and contrast.
  • condemn To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: as, the ship was condemned as unseaworthy; the provisions were condemned by the commissary.
  • condemn To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; specifically, to declare (a vessel) a lawful prize: as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
  • condemn To pronounce, by judicial authority, subject to use for a public purpose. See condemnation, 1 . Synonyms To censure, blame, reprove, reproach, reprobate.
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• Interesting fact: In July 1981, a tortoise was sentenced to death for murder. Tribal elders in Kyuasini, a village in Kenya, formally condemned the tortoise because they suspected it of causing the death of six people, apparently through magic. However, because none of the villagers was prepared to risk the tortoise's wrath by carrying out the execution, it was instead chained to a tree. The tortoise was later freed after the government promised an official inquiry into the deaths.
• • v.t Condemn kon-dem′ to pronounce guilty: to censure or blame: to sentence to punishment: to give up to some fate: to pronounce unfit for use
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• A Course In Miracles

  

  “Only my condemnation injures me.”
• Marcus T. Cicero

  

  “They condemn what they do not understand.”
• William James

  

  “A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
• George Santayana

  

  “Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.”
• Dandemis

  

  “Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”
• Cyril Connolly

  

  “A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.”

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