convince

verb6

1. •
   to make someone feel sure that something is true, often by giving reasons or facts

   • I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.
2. •
   To persuade.
3. •
   To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
4. •
   (no longer used) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

   • […]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Wassell, so conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…] — 1606
5. •
   (no longer used) To confute; to prove wrong.

   • For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ. — 1611
6. •
   (no longer used) To prove guilty; to convict.

   • Which of you conuinceth mee of sinne? — 1611