The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Persuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Persuading.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See Per-, and Suasion.]
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To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
--Acts xxvi. 28.We will persuade him, be it possible.
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To try to influence. [Obsolescent]
Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
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To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.
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To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
--Jer. Taylor.Syn: To convince; induce; prevail on; win over; allure; entice. See Convince.
Wiktionary
n. An act of persuasion. vb. (present participle of persuade English)
Usage examples of "persuading".
At last I succeeded in persuading her to come with me into a box, and as soon as we were in and I had taken off her mask I was astonished to find she was Mdlle.
At Naples he had cheated the Chevalier de Morosini by persuading him to become his surety to the extent of six thousand ducats, and now he arrived in Florence in a handsome carriage, bringing his mistress with him, and having two tall lackeys and a valet in his service.
We were greatly pleased that her easy acceptance of my invitation, or my promptness in persuading her to follow and to trust me, could not be ascribed to the mutual attraction of our features, for I was masked, and her hood was then as good as a mask.
This daughter was a perfect jewel, who had very little difficulty in persuading me to come with them to Stuttgart, where I expected, for other reasons, to have a very pleasant stay.
His father had undertaken a second journey into Gaul, with the hope of persuading Constantine, who had assembled an army on the frontier, to join in the pursuit, and to complete the victory.
But the knowledge of their sentiments, instead of persuading him to recall his decree, provoked him to extend to all Egypt the term of the exile of Athanasius.
His ambition was fired by the hope of launching a Persian navy from the Phasis, of commanding the trade and navigation of the Euxine Sea, of desolating the coast of Pontus and Bithynia, of distressing, perhaps of attacking, Constantinople, and of persuading the Barbarians of Europe to second his arms and counsels against the common enemy of mankind.
Their want of experience detained them twelve years longer the obscure and voluntary pupils of a minister, who extended his reign by persuading them to indulge the pleasures of youth, and to disdain the labors of government.
The Renaud contrived to make me feel that I should be lonely at Augsburg without her, and succeeded in persuading me to come with her to Munich.
Ashamed of my perpetually agile brain, and its egotistic pleasure in analyzing who was persuading whom, which way political power was flowing, who was up and who was on his way down.
Teacher knew before her death that Polly and Helen had to stay together but all that last week when Lenore was there in Forest Hills she spent the time when she took Helen out for a daily walk persuading Helen to try it with Polly--at least for a while.
Gabinius had returned to his perch on the end of the bench where the tribunes of the plebs sat, and watched bright-eyed as the consul and the consular went their rounds, soothing, clucking, persuading men to put their behinds back on their stools.
Manilius had gone from one crossroads college to another, talking to the men his law would benefit, persuading them to go to the Forum and support him.
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, and went round persuading all the potential candidates of old or noble family not to run against Bibulus.
His continued good health depended on his persuading Torak that I was well-nigh invincible.