v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condemned p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning ] [ L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn. ] 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Job xxxiv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condemnabilis. ] Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condemnatio. ] 1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used for condemned persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who condemns or censures. [ 1913 Webster ]