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dissuade, v.|dɪˈsweɪd|
Forms: 6–8 disswade, (6 dysswade, disuade, 6–7 di-, deswade), 6– dissuade.
[ad. L. dissuādē-re to advise from or against, f. dis- 1 + suādēre to advise, urge; cf. F. dissuader (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To give advice against (a thing); to represent as unadvisable or undesirable. ? Obs.
1513More Rich. III Wks. 43 The quene..damning the time that euer shee dissuaded the gatheryng of power aboute the kinge. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 11 Perswadynge all truth, dysswadynge all iniury. 1560Whitehorne Arte Warre (1573) 65 a, To perswade or to diswade a thing vnto fewe is verye easie. 1611E. Grimstone Hist. France 1082 The Queene of Nauarre did much disswade this Alliance. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 293 Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 578 My friends..With mild entreaties my design dissuade. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 438 The Nabob dissuaded any further preparations. 1842Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog., Founders Jesuitism (1850) I. 205 His..friends anxiously dissuaded a journey so full of peril.
2. trans. To advise or exhort (a person) against; to disadvise, dehort (from). ? Obs.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Hist. (Camden, No. 29) 195 The duke dyd the lesse disswade kinge Richerd from usurping the kingdome. 1555Eden Decades Sect. i., Peter Martyr's Dedication (Arb. 63) Ascanius..dissuaded me from my purpose. But seeing that I was fully resolued to departe..required me to wryte vnto hym. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 246 Some disswaded him to hunt that day; but he resolved to the contrary. 1712Addison Spect. No. 411 ⁋7 He particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle Disquisitions. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xiii, My wife very strenuously insisted. Mr. Burchell on the contrary dissuaded her with great ardour. 1848Mozley Ess. Hist. & Theol. (1878) I. 402 They dissuaded him from the contemplated step..but admitted..that, if he insisted upon it, they could not forbid it.
absol.1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 29 To disswade from bad factions. 1793Trial of Fyshe Palmer 55 Palmer dissuaded from the publication.
3. To divert or draw (a person) from a course or action by suasion or personal influence.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 384 Yea I would (if I could) dissuade you from this intent. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 20 Which thing altogither dissuadeth them from their bookes. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Pref., Sufficient to disswade me from the undertaking. 1782F. Burney Cecilia v. iii, I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. 1823F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 8 Matthieu Balmat..refused to accompany us; being dissuaded by his father. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 241 The Peshwa having been with difficulty dissuaded..from flying to Purandhar. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 290 He..was easily dissuaded from this pursuit.
absol.1805Southey Madoc in W. xv, Gerald..sought..to dissuade By politic argument.
Hence diˈssuaded ppl. a., diˈssuading vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also diˈssuader, one who or that which dissuades.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (R.) As though they were diswaders of marriage. 1552Huloet, Disswaded, abhortatus. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Destournement, a dissuading. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 82 Epistles Dehorting and Disswading. 1643Milton Divorce Introd. (1851) 9 A civil, an indifferent, a sometime disswaded Law of mariage. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI. vi. 245 Carrying all the dissuaders along with it. 1883M. Arnold Lett. (1895) II. 216, I relied on a dissuader from you. 1923G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen 29 The other came on, and received a like dissuader from my right. |