What is "persuades"

Usage examples of "persuades".

He persuades her to dress in black panties without a crotch and pose for photographs.

It halts the impatient forward rush of the left brain and persuades it to relax.

In another document, Baines speaks of ‘the horrible blasphemies uttered by Christopher Marlowe’, and goes on to state that ‘in every company he cometh he persuades men and women to Atheism, willing them not to be afeard of bugbears and hobgoblins and utterly scorning both God and his ministers’.

He persuades Fanny to go with him, and completes the crime, finding it as satisfying as he had expected.

Back in her lodgings, he persuades the woman to allow him to penetrate the girl.

But the more interesting instances of dual crime are those in which one innocent hitherto of crime, to whom it is morally repugnant, is persuaded by another to the commission of a criminal act, as Cassius persuades Brutus.

By means of threats, reproaches and inducements he persuades another man to commit the crime.

He took upon himself the office of embassador to the states: on this journey he persuades Casticus, the son of Catamantaledes (one of the Sequani, whose father had possessed the sovereignty among the people for many years, and had been styled "friend" by the senate of the Roman people), to seize upon the sovereignty in his own state, which his father had held before him, and he likewise persuades Dumnorix, an Aeduan, the brother of Divitiacus, who at that time possessed the chief authority in the state, and was exceedingly beloved by the people, to attempt the same, and gives him his daughter in marriage.

He persuades his slave, by the hope of freedom, and by great rewards, to convey a letter to Caesar.