Fasili ya kamusi ya neno "peccant" ni:hatia ya kosa la kimaadili; mwenye dhambi.Kusababisha au uwezekano wa kusababisha madhara au majeraha.Matumizi ya mfano: "Tabia ya upotovu ya mwanasiasa ilisababisha kuanguka kwake."
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humors with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right with spleen, flatus, vertigoes, and deliriums with scrofulous tumors, full of fetid purulent matter with sour, frothy eructations with canine appetites and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
