convey 
roiirnirr, V. CHHroyrr (> north. MK. miivoirn, E. 
r ,n,r,,<l. <|. v.) = Sj>. ,-..,/|- = l'. flWrtotof = 
It. ewwfare (obs.),< Ml- <<""''"'' .accompany 
on the way, < I.. <''-. together, 4 
,,.] I. tram. 1. ToeaiTT, IM-IU-. m- transport. 
L94B 
1Mb not the act of the parent, in any lawfnll gnuint r 
I will ftiun'il them by sea in tl"ats. 
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.XVirtjt. .M. Vi . Ol *T., IV. s- 
wherein 
unin> ^_ o les, I. 3(S. 
2 To transmit ; communicate by transmission ; 
carry or pass along, as to a destination. 
A divine natural right could not h, ..,'.'./ down with- 
out any plain, naturul, or divine rule concerning it. Locke. 
The blessing, therefore, we commemorate was great ; 
an I it was mad.- yet greater by the way n. whieh (.l was 
pleased to ronw/lttSVfc Dp. .I"'-''""'." xenons, I. vil. 
3 In law, to transfer ; pass the title to by deed, 
assignment, or otherwise : as, to conrey lands 
to a purchaser by bargain and sale. 
He preaches to the crowd that power Is lent, 
But not amvty-d, to kingly government. 
Dryden, llle Medal, 1. 83. 
The land of a child under age, or an idiot, might, with 
the consent of a general court be com-,/,',! away 
Bancroft, Hist. U, S., 1. 334. 
Men conveyed themselves to government for a definite 
^S^^^M^J^^S&SSS. 
4 To transmit ; contain and carry ; carry as a 
medium of transmission : as, air conveys sound ; 
words convey ideas. 
Full well the busy whisper, circling round, 
Convry'd the dismal tidings when he frown d. 
As the development of the mind proceeds yml'ol"- : 
. 
(6) The instrument or document by which prop- 
erty is transferred from one person to another; 
specifically, a written instrument transferring 
the ownership of real property between living 
persons; a deed of land. It is sometimes used 
as including leases, mortgages, etc., and some- 
times in contradistinction to them. 
The very conveyance! of his lands will hardly lie In this 
ei " 
MJX 
3 That by which anything is carried or borne 
along; any instrument of transportation from 
one place to another ; specifically, a carnage or 
coach ; a vehicle of any kind. 
These pipes, and these coiimyanea of our blood. 
SitaK., Cor., v. 1. 
4f. The act of removing ; removal. 
Tell her thou niad'st away her uncle I'larence, 
Her uncle Rivers ; y, and, for her sake, 
Mad'st quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne. 
Shnk., Ktcll. III., iv. 4. 
5f. A device; an artifice; hence, secret prac- 
tices; clever or underhand management. 
the wire would be at so high a potential th 
would fly from it into the surrounding air. ^ 
5. To impart ; communicate through some me- 
dium of transmission. 
Poets alone found the delightful way 
Mysterious morals gently to convey 
In charming numbers. 
Dryden, Essay on Satire, 1. 8. 
To conveu our thoughts in more ardent and Intense 
phrase,'. ' Addiwn, Spectator, No. 40:.. 
So long as an accurate impression of facts is cmtryed,\t 
does not matter in the least by what word, -that is, by 
what sounds that impression is conveyed. Inat is, It 
does not matter as far as the facts are concerned 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 39. 
6f. To steal ; lift ; purloin. [Old slang.] 
And take heede who takes it [a spoon] yp, for leare it be 
ronuayde. Babce* Itook (!-. E. 1. S.), p. 7i. 
Convey, the wise It call: Steal! foh; a nco for the 
phrase. ' 
7f. To manage ; carry on ; conduct. 
He thought he had conveyed the matter so privily and 
so closely that it should never have been known nor have 
come to light, Larimer, 2d Sermon l>ef. Edw. V I. , 1550. 
I will . . . convey the business as I shall find nieans. ^ 
8f. To trace ; derive. 
The son and grandson of Nicholas, the elder brother, are 
not inheritable to John the Earl, because, tho they are 
Iwth Denizens bom, yet Nicholas, their father, through 
whom they must convey their P edi S ree ' s w . a ^ a " / * ' "{ 673) . 
Il.t intrans. To steal. [Old slang.] 
I will convey, crosshite, and cheat upon Simplicius. 
COnveyt, . \.< conrey, v. Cf. convoy, .] 1. A 
conveyance or transfer. 
Though the presumptuous asse . . . make a convey of 
'l^rt Courtier (Hart. Misc., v. 403* 
2. An escort ; a convoy. 
The ilnv following, we were faine to hire a strong convey 
of atout LCXs'to guard us through the Cork wood,. 
Actlyn, .Memoirs. 
conveyable (kou-va'a-bl), a. [< convey + -able.] 
Capable of being conveyed or transferred, 
conveyance (kon-va'ans), . [< convey + -AM*.] 
1 Tho act of conveying ; the act of bearing, 
carrying, or transporting, as by land or water, 
or through any medium ; transmission ; trans- 
ference; transport; convoy. 
The cure is properly but an instrument of conueyanre 
for the miude, to apprehend the rence by the sound. 
rittirnlinui. Arte "f be Poesie, p. 14. 
I shall send you Account by Conveyance of 'Mr. Symiw. 
llnmll, Letters, I. i. 28. 
Hie long journey was to lie performed on horseback 
the only sure mode of tonreiiante. 
2 In MIC: (n) The act of transferring property 
from one person to another, as by " lease and 
release," " bargain and sale "; transfer. 
Have this in your minds, when ye devise your secret 
fetches and concft/aiux*. 
l,,ttniier, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., lonO. 
Since Henry's death, I fear thereU '"""jjj"^- ( ^ 
In one (picture) . . . there 1 the exqulsltest ctmveyance 
that ever 1 saw, which is a prety little picture drawen in 
the forme of an handkerchief . . . and inserted into an- 
other. Coryat, Crudities, I. 18(1. 
Derivative conveyance. In lam, a secondary deed ; an 
instrument modifying an estate already created, as a 
release confirmation, surrender, consignment, or defea- 
sance Fraudulent conveyance, a conveyance calcu- 
lated 'to deprive creditors of their full and just remedii 
-Gratuitous conveyance or deed, one made without 
any value being given for it.- Innocent conveyance, in 
old Kmj. law, a conveyance of such form, as lease and re- 
lease, bargain and sale, and covenant to stand seized, that 
it did not purport to transfer anything more than the 
grantor actually had, so that it could not be tortious as 
was a feoffment made by a person vested only with a less 
estate than the fee. See enMiZ-Mesne conveyance, 
mesne encumbrance, a conveyance or encumbrance 
made or attaching to a title, intermediate to others: as, 
he derived title from the original patentee through sever- 
al ineme co./n<-c.-0rdlnary conveyance, in lair, 
a deed of transfer which is entered into between two or 
more persons without an assurance In a superior court ( 
justice-Voluntary conveyance, a transfer without 
valuable consideration. 
conveyancer (kon-va'an-ser), n. [< conveyance 
+ -cr*.] One who is engaged in the business 
of conveyancing. 
conveyancing (kou-va'an-sing), ii. [< conrey- 
ance + -iny 1 .] 1.' The act or practice of draw- 
ing deeds, leases, or other writings for trans- 
ferring the title to property from one person 
to another, of investigating titles to property, 
and of framing the deeds and contracts which 
govern and define the rights and liabilities of 
families and individuals. 2. The system of 
law affecting property, under which titles are 
held and transferred. 
conveyer (kon-va'er), 11. 1. One who conveys; 
one who or that which conveys, carries, trans- 
ports, transmits, or transfers from one person 
or place to another. Also sometimes conveyor. 
On the surface of the earth, . . .the dense matter Is 
Itself in great part, the conveyer of the undulations in 
which these agenU (light and heat] consist. 
W. R. drove, Corr. of Forces, p. 138. 
2. Specifically, a mechanical contrivance for 
carrying objects. Applied to those adaptations of 
band-buckets or spirals which convey grain, chaff Hour, 
bran etc., in threshers, elevators, or grmding-mills, or 
materials to upper stories of warehouses or shops or 
buildings in course of erection. Also applied to those 
arrangements of carriage, traveling on ropes by which 
hay lifted by the horse-fork is conveyed to distant parts 
of a barn or mow, or materials are carried to a building. 
K. 11. Knight. 
3t. An impostor; a cheat; a thief . 
conviction 
ConviciOUSt (kon-vish'us), n. [Also written 
miu-itinux; < L. i-iniriciiim, mnntium, abuse 
(see mnviciate), + -otw.] Reproachful; oppro- 
brious. 
The uueen's majesty coiniimiiiidHh all niam-r her sul>- 
jet-U . not to use In <le,plte or rebuke of any penon 
these conviriotu worda-paplit, or papistical, h.-retik.-, 
ismntike or . . any ,uch like word, of reproche. 
QMM Ktitabeth, Injunctions, an. 1559. 
convict (kmi-vikf), r. t. [< ME. convicten, < L. 
conrictiu, pp. of nun-inn n; overcome, conquer, 
convict of error or crime, convince: see COH- 
vince.] I . To prove or find guilty of an offense 
charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge 
to be Tguilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as 
by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision : 
as, to convict the prisoner of felony. 
One captain, taken with a cargo of African, on board 
his veswl, has been convicted of the highest gra.le 01 
fense under our laws, the punishment of which is <leatn 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 175. 
2 To convince of wrong-doing or sin ; bring 
(one) to the belief or consciousness that one has 
done wrong; awaken the conscience of. 
They which heard it. lielng convicted by t> le I lr . own . on .- 
science, went out one by one. 
3. To confute ; prove or show to be false. 
Although not only the reason, but experience, may well 
convict It, yet will it not by dlven Irc Dejected. ^ ^ 
4f. To show by proof or evidence. 
Imagining that these proofs will convict . testament to 
have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading 
tod. 
convict (as a. kon-vikf, as n. kon'vikt), a. and 
[< ME. convict = Sp. Pg. conriclo = It. eoii- 
tn'nto, convicted, < L. conrictus, pp. : see the 
verb.] I. . 1. Proved or found guilty; con- 
victed. [Obsolete or poetical.] 
Of malefactor, emmet by witnesses, and thereupon 
either adjudged to die or otherwise chasUsed their ens- 
Nor witness hired, nor jury pick'd, 
Prevail to bring him i'^ ^ ^ Swfft 
2t Overcome: conquered. CAflwcer. 
]3 n. A person proved or found guilty of 
an offense alleged against him ; especially, one 
found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, 
by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision ; 
hence, a person undergoing penal servitude ; a 
convicted prisoner Convict-lease system, sys- 
tem employed in some of the southern I idled State, of 
letting out the labor of convict, to contractors for em- 
ployment in gangs on public works or in other outdoor 
lalwr, the contractor taking full charge of them.- Con- 
vict system, the method in which a state disposes of Its 
"micts or their labor : specifically, the system of Iran,- 
porting convicts to penal settlements, as from Russia to 
Siberia, and formerly from England to Australia. 
conviction (kon-vik'shon), . [= F. conviction 
= Sp. conviction = Pg. eeMfefOB = It. ooiiriw- 
' 
Boliw. Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower. 
K Kich. O, good 1 Convey? Conveyers are you all, 
That rise thus nimbly liy a true king's fall. 
OA4I&., Klcll. 11., IV. I. 
conveyor (kon-va'qr), n. See conveyer, 1. 
conviciatet (fcou-vish'i-at), v. t. [Also written 
convitiate; < t'. conviciatus, conritiatus, pp. of 
conviciari, conntiari, reproach, rail at, < oi-i- 
cium, conritium, a loud cry, clamor, abuse; ori- 
gin uncertain.] To reproach; rail at; abuse. 
To conviciate instead of accusing. Laud. 
convicinityt (kon-vi-sin'i-ti). n. [= It. <">;- 
,-i'iM ,' as POM- + rifinity. Cf. ML. conrieiiiiiim. 
vicinity, < conricinus (> Sp. conrecino). neigh- 
boring, < L. coin-, together, + -ieiii, neigh- 
boring: seci-icii/if.//.] Neighborhood; vicinity. 
The conndnity and contiguity of the two parishes. 
/. w.irtvn. Hi-t. Kiddington, p. IS. 
=; OU. (OH',i/f,/ * ft* ^ ' '"y ~ 
'I'onc, < lA,.conrictio(n-), demonstration, proof , 
< L. convincere, pp. convictus, convict, convince : 
see convict, r., and convince.] It. The act of 
convincing one of the truth of something; espe- 
cially, the act of convincing of error ; confuta- 
tion. [Rare.] 2. The state of being convinced 
or fully persuaded ; strong belief on the ground 
of satisfactory reasons or evidence; the con- 
scious assent of the mind ; settled persuasion ; 
a fixed or firm belief: as, an opinion amount- 
ing to conviction; he felt a strong connerion o 
coming deliverance. [As a philosophical term, 
conviction translates the Greek avyKaTaSeatf of 
the Stoics.] 
It [deliberate aiaent] is sometime, called a conrfcrton, a 
word which commonly include, in its meaning two acts 
both the act i .f Inference, and the act of awent consequent 
upon the inference. 
J. //. Xetvman, Gram, of Aasent, p. ITS. 
Without earnest convictiom, no great or sound litera- 
ture is conceivable. 
Lowell, Among my Book,, 1st er., p. 7. 
There Is no one of our surest conviction! which may not 
1* upset, or at any rate modified, by a further acceMlon 
ofknowledge. Huxley, On the "Origin of Specie,, p.131 
Specifically 3. The state of being convinced 
that one is or has been acting in opposition 
to conscience; the state of being convicted of 
wrong-doing or sin; strong admonition of 
conscience ; religious compunction. 
The manner of hi, conviction was designed, not a, a 
peculiar privilege to him, but as a ... lasng argmnent 
for the conviction of others. 
The awful providence, ye see, hail awakened him. and 
hi, sin had been set home to hU soul ; i 
such conviction, that it all ' 
, p. n. 
4 The act of proving or finding guilty of an 
offense charged; especially, the finding by a 
