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To act as a sinner. [Humorous] Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Pope.

A woman who sins. [Obs.]

of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

t. There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond.

(any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.

to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men to pull. Beau. & Fl. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Prov. i. 10. Go, and thine erring brother gain, Entice him home to be forgiven. Keble.

n their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. Dryden. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. Pope. Its self. See Itself.

e or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Shak.

To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.

ions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak.

ed. Addison. To saint it, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety. Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Shak.

death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15.

ected. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. Heb. vii. 26.

e done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.

iolence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. Hammond.

al thanks." Massinger. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye for sinners also do even the same. Luke vi. 33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin Milton.…

, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.