Crossword clues for peccant
peccant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peccant \Pec"cant\, n.
An offender. [Obs.]
--Whitlock.
Peccant \Pec"cant\, a. [L. peccans, -antis, p. pr. of peccare to sin: cf. F. peccant.]
Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
--Milton.Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.
--Bacon.Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.]
--Ayliffe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin peccantem (nominative pecans) "sinful," present participle of peccare "to sin" (see peccadillo). As a noun from 1620s. Related: Peccancy.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) unhealthy; causing disease 2 sinful 3 wrong; defective; faulty n. (context obsolete English) An offender.
WordNet
adj. liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott [syn: peccable]
Usage examples of "peccant".
Possibly this was the secret source of part of his anger against that peccant youth.
Hinkley peccant and wrathy, and exercised the vernacular of the rest to very liberal extent, we do not care to distress the reader with it.
The tattle of society did its best to place the peccant husband above the suffering wife.
The bloodlettings, the vomits and the purges were intended to rid the viscera and the circulatory system of peccant humors, and at the same time to relieve the pressure of the animal spirits upon the brain.
The best way to suppress a book is to burn it, and there were, accordingly, frequent bonfires of peccant literature.
Adeline exclaimed, going to the mirror to rearrange the peccant tissue.
I am sorry they mostly came too late: a peccant passage or two that I would certainly have altered, were gone to the press.
He obtained leave to move the adjournment and would doubtless have provided the peccant journal with a valuable free advertisement had not Mr.
His humor, never peccant, was related to his brooding melancholy, and was designed to smooth out the little rough places in life, which he so well understood, with all its tragedies and tears.
With the first gleam of dawn I plainly saw that our own peccant door was the cause, and I was able by that time, with some caution, to rise and secure the bolt, and thus relieve ourselves, and probably our neighbours, from the weary sound.
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours.
It is allowed that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours, with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart.