PERSUADE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Persuade

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pərswˈeɪd/ Listen

verb

Persuade v. t. (past & past part. persuaded; pres. part. persuading)

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." "We will persuade him, be it possible."

To try to influence. (Obsolescent) "Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you."

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."

To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.

Synonyms: To convince; induce; prevail on; win over; allure; entice. See Convince.

Persuade v. i. To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

noun

Persuade n. Persuasion. (Obs.)

See images of 'Persuade'

Etymology of 'Persuade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Persuade" Quotes from Famous Books

... captured by pirates, he reached Lisbon, and sought still to obtain means of overawing the force hostile to the work of the Jesuits in Abyssinia. The Princess Margaret gave friendly hearing, but sent him on to persuade, if he could, the King of Spain; and failing at Madrid, he went to Rome and tried the Pope. He was chosen to go to the Pope, said the Patriarch Alfonso Mendez, because, of all the brethren at Goa, the 'Pater Hieronymus Lupus' (Lobo translated into Wolf) was the most ingenious and learned ...

— A Voyage to Abyssinia • Jerome Lobo

... him to take such a risk—the terrible hazard of discovery, of losing the only woman he had ever really cared for—the only one he probably could ever care for? Of course, had he been free he would have married her. When he got his freedom he would insist on another ceremony. He could persuade her to that on some excuse or other. ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... impossible to point to a single branch of human activity in which success can be explained by the conventional principles that find general acceptance. I hear you, O reader, murmuring to yourself: "This is all very well, but he is simply being paradoxical for his own diversion." I would that I could persuade you of my intense seriousness! I have endeavoured to show what does not make success. I will next endeavour to show what does make it. But my hope ...

— Mental Efficiency - And Other Hints to Men and Women • Arnold Bennett

... their licentious appetites in the manner already related, they also sought new excitements by utilizing certain animals on the farm. Ethel would frig a bull or a goat, and when milking a favorite cow, would suddenly persuade Frank to lift her in his arms, where she would lay extended on her back, and raising her clothes, would frig herself with the cow's teats, the milk from which would flow into her ravenous cunt to be afterwards ...

— The Power of Mesmerism - A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies • Anonymous

... her methods, but I surely should know within two or three weeks whether I am going to succeed or not. If not, then there is no use in waiting there. I shall try to persuade the Prince to accompany me to America. During the weeks I am waiting in St. Petersburg I shall continually impress upon him the utter futility of a life which has not investigated the great electrical power plant at Niagara Falls. And then he is interested in the educational ...

— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr

More quotes...