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condemned, ppl. a.|kənˈdɛmd|
Also 6 condamned, -dampnit.
[f. condemn + -ed1.]
1. a. Pronounced to be at fault or guilty; lying under condemnation. (Also absol. with the.)
1543in Sc. Pasquils (ed. Maidment) 420 Bukis or warkis of condampnit heretikis. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 68 The auld condamned Anabaptists. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. iii. x. (1622) 79 So long the condemneds life should be prolonged. 1712Steele Spect. No. 504 ⁋5 The bodies of condemn'd malefactors. 1791Gent. Mag. LXI. ii. 750 [The Inhabitants of gaols] are divided into different classes of male and female felons, king's evidences, the condemned to die. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 65 Her own share..in the production of the condemned book.
b. Confounded, damned. colloq. Chiefly U.S.
1841Spirit of Times 3 Apr. 58/2 Did you ever git intu a neest of runners arter baggage?.. I had heard folks tell what condemn'd critturs they were. a1861T. Winthrop Open Air (1863) 249 ‘But I took a big cold,’ the diver continued, ‘and I'm condemned hoarse yit.’ 1909in Ware Passing Eng. 89/2 ‘Ducks!’ I says; ‘you condemned lunatic, them ain't ducks; them's mud hens!’ 1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean viii. 140 Bless my soul, what sort of a condemned rumshop have I stumbled into?
2. Adjudged or officially pronounced unfit for use.
1798Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 200 To throw all the condemned provisions..overboard into the Sea.
3. Appropriated to condemned persons, or things rejected, as in condemned cell, condemned pew, etc.
c1678P. Cook in R. L'Estrange's Brief Hist. Times iii. (1688) 78 In the Place call'd the Condemn'd Hole. 1717Hist. Press-Yard 7, I was conducted to the door leading out of the lodge into the Condemn'd Hold. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 145 The poor fellow..is in your condemned hole. 1818Baldw. Brown Mem. J. Howard v. 135 ‘The pit’ and within it, the condemned cell, both dirty and offensive. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Visit to Newgate, The condemned pew; a huge black pew in which the wretched people who are singled out for death are placed, on the Sunday preceding their execution. 1838― O. Twist lii, They led him to one of the condemned cells. 1884A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 434 Excluded from the Newgate Chapel on the day the condemned sermon was preached.
4. Fastened or closed up (as a door).
1884C. Reade in Harper's Mag. Apr. 680/1, I let him in by the condemned door. |