10 July 2016
peccant
[pek-uh nt]
adjective
1. sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
2. violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.
Origin of peccant
Latin
1595-1605; < Latin peccant- (stem of peccāns), present participle of peccāre to err, offend; see -ant
Related forms
peccancy, peccantness, noun
peccantly, adverb
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Examples from the Web for peccant
Historical Examples
How came it that he included Florentine among the peccant idioms, and maintained that the true literary speech was still to seek?
Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature
John Addington Symonds
But it is useless and canting to say that peccant women are worse than men.
She Stands Accused
Victor MacClure
For this reason I desired to divert the peccant matter downward, a point which the physician should consider and observe.
Gilbertus Anglicus
Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Anagram
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Today’s quote
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‘stick’ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
– Nikola Tesla
(I don’t usually editorialise these quotes, but I think Mr Tesla would be sadly disappointed with today’s media!)
On this day
10 July 1856 – Birth of Nikola Tesla, Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist. Inventor of alternating current (A/C) electricity supply. Died 7 January 1943.
10 July 1942 – birth of Ronald James Padavona, otherwise known as Ronny James Dio, heavy metal singer. Dio replaced Ozzy Osbourne as lead singer of Black Sabbath, for two years before leaving after disagreements with other band members. Dio was also associated with Rainbow, Dio, and Elf. Died 16 May 2010.
10 July 1947 – birth of Sixto Rodriguez, elusive American folk musician. Rodriguez recorded two albums, Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, in the early 1970s. Neither album sold well in the USA, however, unknown to Rodriguez, he gained cult status in Australia and South Africa. Rodriguez disappeared into obscurity as legends abounded of his fate, including that he had either shot himself or set fire to himself on stage. In the 1996, two South African fans, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Styrdrom, tracked him down in Detroit, breaking the news to him that he was bigger than Elvis and the Rolling Stones in South Africa. Rodriguez flew out to South Africa and performed six concerts. Rodriguez has since played concerts across the globe, including Australia, South Africa, USA, UK. The Oscar-winning documentary, ‘Searching for Sugarman’ is a gritty, intriguing biopic of this story.