Use of term "condemn"

Larry Longerbeam (82438@email.msn.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:45:17 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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I've been reading "The North Bay Narrative" by Walter Staples, an account of
a settlement in the La Poile Bay and River area of Newfoundland where I have
salmon fished a couple of times. In a section telling how some North Bay
residents built a two-masted schooner they couldn't sell, the writer says
they "condemned" it, rigged it, sailed it to Rose Blanch to get papers for
it and started sailing it commercially. My "Webster's Collegiate" gives
no definition suitable for the context. Does anyone know the definition of
"condemn" as used above?