| sin | 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." (John viii. 34) "Sin is the transgression of the law." (1 John III. 4) "I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win." (Shak) "Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires." (Milton) 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. "I grant that poetry's a crying sin." (Pope) 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. "He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin." (2 Cor. V. 21) 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. "Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham." (Shak) Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See Actual, Canonical, etc. Deadly, or Mortal, sins, willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Synonym: Iniquity, wickedness, wrong. See Crime. Origin: OE. Sinne, AS. Synn, syn; akin to D. Zonde, OS. Sundia, OHG. Sunta, G. Sunde, Icel, Dan. & Sw. Synd, L. Sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. Pr. Of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sin recombinase | <enzyme> From staphylococcus aureus; genbank l23109; do not confuse with sin gene product, a repressor protein from bacillus subtilis Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- Synonym: sin gene product, staphylococcus (26 Jun 1999) |
| sinalbin | <chemistry> A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Origin: From L. Sinapis + alba. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinamine | <chemistry> A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia. Synonym: allyl melamine. Origin: Sinapis + melamine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapate | <chemistry> A salt of sinapic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapic | <chemistry> Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapine | <chemistry> An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition. Origin: L. Sinapi, sinapis, mustard, Gr., cf. F. Sinapine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapis | <botany> A disused generic name for mustard; now called Brassica. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapisin | <chemistry> A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapism | <medicine> A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant. Origin: L. Sinapismus, Gr, the use of a mustard blister, fr. To apply a mustard blister, fr. Mustard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapoleic | <chemistry> Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil. Origin: Sinapis + oleic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sinapoline | <chemistry> A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C3H5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance. Synonym: diallyl urea. Origin: Sinapis + L. Oleum oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sincalide | <chemical> 1-de(5-oxo-l-proline)-2-de-l-glutamine-5-l-methioninecaerulein. The eight-amino-acid carbon-terminal fragment and physiologically active portion of the cholecystokinin-pancreozymin molecule. It stimulates the GI tract, especially gallbladder and pancreas, and has many, often depressant, effects on the CNS. It is also a neurotransmitter. It is used to diagnose gallbladder disease and has also been proposed as an anorexic. Its amino acid sequence is: l-asp-(o-sulfo)-l-tyr-l-met-l-gly-l-trp-l-met-l-alpha-asp-l-phe-amide. Chemical name: Caerulein, 1-de(5-oxo-L-proline)-2-de-L-glutamine-5-L-methionine- (12 Dec 1998) |
| sincaline | <chemistry> Choline. Alternative forms: sinkaline. Origin: So called because obtained by the action of alkalies on sinapine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sincere | 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. "There is no sincere acid in any animal juice." (Arbuthnot) "A joy which never was sincere till now." (Dryden) 2. Whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured. "The inviolable body stood sincere." (Dryden) 3. Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. "A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions." (Law) 4. Honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person. "The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account." (Waterland) Synonym: Honest, unfeigned, unvarnished, real, true, unaffected, inartificial, frank, upright. See Hearty. Origin: L. Sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli (see Single), and the second to cernere to separate (cf. Discern): cf. F. Sincere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |