(a.) Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
Example Sentences:
Peccant
Definition:
(a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
(a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.
(a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.
(n.) An offender.
Example Sentences:
(1) General, its evacuated peccant humors by vein section and purgation; local, it acts upon surrounding regions (shoulder, tempel, ear, chin), in the mouth (collutorium), on the tooth or its cavity.