condemnation (kondemnashon)

[= F. con damnation = Pr. condemn a cion, condempnation = Sp. con den a cion = Pg. condemn ação = It. cond an nag i one, cond an nazi one, condennazi one, There is therefore now no condemnation to them. A legal and judicial condemnation . Rom. viii. 1. Paley , Moral Philos., iii. 3. (c) The act of judicially or officially declaring something to be unfit for use or service: as, the condemnation of a ship that is unseaworthy, or a building that is unsafe. (d) The act of a court competent jurisdiction in adjudging a prize or captured ve el to have been lawfully captured. Rapalje and Lawrence. (e) The act of determining and declaring, after due proce of law, that some specific property is required for public use, and must be surrendered by the owner on payment of damages to be deter. demneren = Dan. kondemnere, count of its injurious tendency. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. As for their new way of mingling mirth with serious plot, I do not, with Lisideius, condemn the thing, though I cannot approve their manner of doing it. Dryden, E . on Dram. Poesy. The Commons would not expre ly approve the war; but neither did they as yet expre ly condemn it. Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 2. To serve for the condemnation of; afford occasion for condemning: as, his very looks condemn him. If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me. Job ix. 20. 3t. To convict: with of . With such incomparable honour, and constant resolution, so farre beyond beleefe, they haue attempted and in dured in their discoueries and plantations, as may well condemne vs of too much imbecillitie, sloth, and negligence. Capt . John Smith , True Travels, II. 203. 4. To pronounce to be guilty, as opposed to ac quit or absolve ; more specifically, to sentence to punishment; utter sentence against judicial Woodward, E ay towards a Nat. Hist. of the Earth. ly; doom: the penalty, when expre ed, being mined by commi ioners or a jury: as, the condemnation of 2. Strong censure; disapprobation; reproof. O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of condemnation or approof! struct i on? Shak., M. for M., ii. 4. How can they admit of teaching who have the condem nation of God already upon them for refusing divine in Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 3t. Adverse judgment; the amount of a judgment against one. Black stone . - 4. The state of being condemned. His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopele hour of condemnation. Irving. 5. The cause or reason of a sentence of guilt or punishment. This is the condemnation , that light is come into the world, and men loved darkne rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19.