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

(en verb)

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.

*

The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .

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To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.

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(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.

(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.