3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to
punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; — with to before the
penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
Milton.
To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray.
And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18.
The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope.
No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn.
Goldsmith.
4. To amerce or fine; — with in before the penalty. The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
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.
6. (Law)
Defn: 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.
CONDEMNABLE
Con"dem*na"ble, a. Etym: [L. condemnabilis.]
Defn: Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
CONDEMNATION
Con"dem*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. condemnatio.]
1. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.