Word Finder - condemned

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To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

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The president condemned the terrorists.

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To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

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To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

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To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

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The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

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To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

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To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

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To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

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To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

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A person sentenced to death.

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Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

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Having been sharply scolded.

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Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

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(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.

The night he slept with her and condemned her to walk the path that led her to Hell.

He was sent for trial and condemned to hard labor, I believe.

They were condemned and put to death.

The parlements thereupon condemned several private persons for obtaining bulls from Rome.

Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt?

Had past-Deidre lost them and condemned a billion souls to this existence?

Archelaus, Herod's successor, had far less authority than Herod, and the real power of government at Jerusalem was assumed by the Roman procurators, in the time of one of whom, Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ was condemned to death and crucified outside Jerusalem.

He was condemned by a Roman synod under Bishop Siricius in 390, and afterwards excommunicated by another at Milan under the presidency of Ambrose.

All were condemned to death for high treason.

He rose and tossed the book away, wanting to distance his thoughts from the monsters that had condemned generation after generation of warlords with the beast.

The world condemned them; then, as they were poor and modest, it forgot them.

He was tried and condemned to death for being a heretic, but the sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment, while his wife was immured in a convent.

He was tried at Rome, condemned to death in October 1569, and executed in July 1570.

On the 29th of July 1693 he was condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late earl of Clarendon, fined, banished from the university until he recanted, and the offending pages burnt.

This defence of orthodoxy was condemned as heretical.

Here he called a council which condemned Anacletus.

The Arabs endeavoured to induce Geronimo to renounce Christianity, but as he steadfastly refused to do so he was condemned to death.

On his failure to appear before the court he was condemned to death, and remained in Belgium until 1879, when he was included in the amnesty proclaimed by Grevy.

He condemned duelling by bull of the 24th of February 1509.

The prisoner is defended by an officer, whom he may himself appoint, and can be acquitted by a simple majority, but only be condemned by a two-thirds majority.

Three times he refused to appear, and early in 1180 sentence was pronounced against him; he was condemned to lose all his lands and to go into banishment.

But the constitution of the diet from the first condemned its debates to sterility.

In 1872 Bebel and Liebknecht were condemned to two years imprisonment.

The penalty of excommunication ipso facto is only maintained for reading books written by heretics or apostates in defence of heresy, or books condemned by name under pain of excommunication by pontifical letters (not by decrees of the Index).

He joined in the attack upon the Girondists, but, as member of the committee of general security, he condemned the system of the Terror.

His doctrines were disapproved of by many Catholics, and were mildly condemned by Rome.

They were therefore recalled, tried and condemned to death, except two who had disobeyed the order to return to Athens.

Shortly after his arrival there he issued a document known to history as his Judicatum (548), in which he condemned indeed the three chapters, but expressly disavowed any intentions thereby to disparage the council of Chalcedon.

Idolatry and all deification of created beings, such as the worship of Christ as the Son of God, are unsparingly condemned.

There was considerable difficulty about the terms of capitulation, and one council of war condemned Carrel to death.

Bismarck afterwards said that this speech of Bebel's was a "ray of light," showing him that Socialism was an enemy to be fought against and crushed; and in 1872 Bebel was accused in Brunswick of preparation for high treason, and condemned to two years' imprisonment in a fortress, and, for insulting the German emperor, to nine months' ordinary imprisonment.

After the passing of the Socialist Law he continued to show great activity in the debates of the Reichstag, and was also elected a member of the Saxon parliament; when the state of siege was proclaimed in Leipzig he was expelled from the city, and in 1886 condemned to nine months' imprisonment for taking part in a secret society.

As early as the council of Augsburg (952) these were condemned to be scourged, while Leo II.

When he was condemned to death by Nero, she would have imitated her mother's example, but was dissuaded by her husband, who entreated her to live for the sake of their children.

It is probable that this process was largely an unconscious one; and even if conscious, the analogy of the conventional " legal fiction " and the usual anxiety to avoid the appearance of novelty is enough to show that it is not to be condemned.

It does not appear to have made any headway, however, and alpaca wool was condemned as an unworkable material.

In 1830 Benjamin Outram, of Greetland, near Halifax, appears to have again attempted the spinning of this fibre, and for the second time alpaca was condemned.

The pioneers of the work were confronted with many difficulties; most people condemned the fibre and the cloth, many warps were discarded as unfit for weaving, and any attempt to mix the fibre with flax, tow or hemp was considered a form of deception.

They were both seized, tried and condemned as traitors, and were executed on the 5th of June 1568 in the great square before the town hall at Brussels.

He was associated with David Reubeni, who also made Messianic claims. Molko, after a chequered career, was condemned to death by the ecclesiastical court at Mantua.

It was synodically condemned along with Hobbes's Leviathan and other books as early as April 1671, and was consequently interdicted by the states-general of Holland in 1674; before long it was also placed on the Index by the Catholic authorities.

Having meanwhile become archbishop of Canterbury Courtenay summoned a council, or synod, in London, which condemned the opinions of Wycliffe; he then attacked the Lollards at Oxford, and urged the bishops to imprison heretics.

He was condemned first to be broken on the wheel and then beheaded; but, reprieved on the scaffold, his sentence was commuted to lifelong banishment, with his whole family, to Berezov in Siberia, where he died six years later.

He became chancellor to Gustavus Vasa, but his reforming zeal soon brought him into disgrace, and in 1J40 he was condemned to death.

Being discovered plotting against the government during the absence of Gustavus in Russia, he was condemned to imprisonment for life - that is, for twenty years.

A council of war, before which he was tried, condemned him to pay the cost of restoring the column, 300,000 francs (12,000).

At the request of the pope he was seized by order of the emperor Frederick, then in Italy, and delivered to the prefect of Rome, by whom he was condemned to death.

Then a higher God, hitherto unknown, and concealed even from the Demiurge, took pity on the wretched, condemned race of men.

On this occasion Nestorius was condemned, and the honour of the Virgin established as Theotokus, amid great popular rejoicing, due, doubtless, in some measure to the hold which the cult of the virgin Artemis still had on the city.

He was accused of complicity in an obscure attempt (1857) against the life of Napoleon III., and condemned in his absence to deportation.