peccant

The young men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors.

'That is very generally the peccant part,' said Mr Florey.

Asquith publicly repudiated the "peccant paragraphs" (25 March).

His sister Charlotte made a transcription of his Diaries, but censored "peccant passages" and destroyed the original.

It was recommended not only for easing extreme pain, but for assisting in discharging the peccant matter that occurred with the pain.

There is perhaps more art than you think for in the peccant chapter, where I have succeeded in packing into one a dedication, an explanation, and a termination.

After a while he said 'As I thought, it is your liver that is the peccant part; or at least the most peccant of your parts.

If,' he concluded, musingly, 'we had been merely able to recover the lost bags, I believe with but a touch or two, I could have remedied the peccant engine.

He does, however, have a strange penchant for obscure words like "salvific," "predaceous," "peccant" and "mithridatic," and opaque formulations like "all sentience knew his reputation."

Her rudder was broken, her wheel carried away; within she was flooded with water from the peccant hawse-pipes; she had just made the signal "fires extinguished," and lay helpless, awaiting the inevitable end.

Asquith (25 March) publicly repudiated the "peccant paragraphs" which had been added to the Cabinet statement, and French, the Adjutant-General Spencer Ewart and Seely had to resign.

When a condition is worsening, but has not yet reached the point of a true emergency, surgeons speak of semi-elective surgery: the peccant part must be dealt with, but a delay is not expected to affect the outcome.

"A medical man does not cut off the limb in any spirit of corporate revenge, nor in terrorem; he does not make a solemn show of the amputation, nor is the peccant limb attended by all the marks of ignominy.

I say behaviour, for genuine meekness never reached the heart or mind, unless as the effect of reflection; and that simple restraint produces a number of peccant humours in domestic life, many sensible men will allow, who find some of these gentle irritable creatures, very troublesome companions.

But let us call to synod all the Blest, Through Heaven's wide bounds: from them I will not hide My judgements; how with mankind I proceed, As how with peccant Angels late they saw, And in their state, though firm, stood more confirmed.