convince

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make someone agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

   They had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of their product.

2. 2
   verb

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

   I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.

3. 3
   verb

   To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

   […]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]

4. 4
   verb

   To confute; to prove wrong.

   For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.

5. 5
   verb

   To prove guilty; to convict.

   Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?

6. 6
   verb

   To persuade.

7. 7
   verb

   To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convincō (“to refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“to conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.