What does "peccant" mean?
Peccant: Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.
- 3.An offender. [Obs.] Whitlock.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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