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Persuade
PERSUA'DE, v.t. [L. persuadeo; per and suadeo, to urge or incite.]
1. To influence by argument, advice, intreaty or expostulation; to draw or incline the will to a determination by presenting motives to the mind.
I should be glad, if I could persuade him to write such another critick on any thing of mine.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian. Acts 26.
2. To convince by argument, or reasons offered; or to convince by reasons suggested by reflection or deliberation, or by evidence presented in any manner to the mind.
Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. Heb 6.
3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. [Little used.]
4. To treat by persuasion. [Not in use.]
persuade appears in definitions for these words:
Ado Adviser Almost Argue Ascertain Believe Bring Coax Coaxed Concurrence Convince Convinced Deaf Deliberative Difficileness Difficult Draw Edify Eloquence Eloquent Eloquently Enticed Exorable Facile Facileness Facility Faith Fall Feelingly Flexibility Flexible Fully Gain Get Help Impersuasible Induced Inducement Inducer Inexorable Influenced Instigated Instruct Inveigle Mispersuade Move Oratory Overpersuade Persuadable Persuadably Persuade Persuader Persuasibility Persuasible Persuasion Persuasively Persuasory Plead Pleading Pliant Power Powerful Prevail Procure Protreptical Pun Reason Regard Seducer Sensible Since Steddy Strength Stubborn Suade Suasible Suasion Suasive Suasory Treaty Turn Unconverted Unconvinced Uninfluenced Unpersuadable Unreconcilable Unsatisfied Unseduced
Ado Adviser Almost Argue Ascertain Believe Bring Coax Coaxed Concurrence Convince Convinced Deaf Deliberative Difficileness Difficult Draw Edify Eloquence Eloquent Eloquently Enticed Exorable Facile Facileness Facility Faith Fall Feelingly Flexibility Flexible Fully Gain Get Help Impersuasible Induced Inducement Inducer Inexorable Influenced Instigated Instruct Inveigle Mispersuade Move Oratory Overpersuade Persuadable Persuadably Persuade Persuader Persuasibility Persuasible Persuasion Persuasively Persuasory Plead Pleading Pliant Power Powerful Prevail Procure Protreptical Pun Reason Regard Seducer Sensible Since Steddy Strength Stubborn Suade Suasible Suasion Suasive Suasory Treaty Turn Unconverted Unconvinced Uninfluenced Unpersuadable Unreconcilable Unsatisfied Unseduced
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