Verb

(convinc)

To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.

* Atterbury

Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.

To persuade.

(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

* Shakespeare

His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.

(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.

* Francis Bacon

God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.

(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.

* Bible, John viii. 46

Which of you convinceth me of sin?

* Dryden

Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.

Verb

(es)

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

*

To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

* , (w) 6:18

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

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To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.