CONVINCE, L., to vanquish.
1. To persuade or satisfy the mind by evidence to subdue the opposition of the mind to truth, or to what is alledged, and compel it to yield its assent as, to convince a man of his errors or to convince him of the truth.
For he mightily convinced the Jews--showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. Acts 18 .
2. To convict to prove guilty to constrain one to admit or acknowledge himself to be guilty.
If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of by the law as transgressors. James 2 .
To convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 1:15 .
3. To envince to prove.
4. To overpower to surmount to vanquish.
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