Convince

Convince - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CONVINCE, v.t. [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 15.

3. To envince; to prove.

4. To overpower; to surmount; to vanquish.