persuadev.

Brit.

/pəˈsweɪd/, U.S.

/pərˈsweɪd/

Forms: late Middle English–1700s perswade, late Middle English– persuade, 1500s parsuade, 1500s parswade, 1500s persuad, 1500s perswaid, 1500s perswaude, 1500s–1600s perswarde (probably transmission error), 1600s perswaide, 1600s perswed; Scottish pre-1700 parsuade, pre-1700 parswade, pre-1700 persewade, pre-1700 persuadd, pre-1700 persuaed, pre-1700 persuaid, pre-1700 persude, pre-1700 perswad, pre-1700 perswadd, pre-1700 perswade, pre-1700 perswaid, pre-1700 1700s– persuade.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French persuader; Latin persuādēre.

Etymology: < Middle French, French persuader to persuade or convince (someone of something or to do something) (c1370) and its etymon classical Latin persuādēre to persuade (someone to do something), to prevail upon, to cause (something) to be believed (by someone), (reflexive) to convince oneself, (passive) to be convinced, to induce the doing or practice of, to recommend < per- per- prefix + suādēre to advise, recommend, urge as desirable (see suade v.). Compare Catalan persuadir (15th cent.), Spanish persuadir (c1428 or earlier), Portuguese persuadir (16th cent.; earlier as †persuader (15th cent.)), Italian persuadere (1319).

I. Senses relating to persons.

1. transitive. With a person as object.

a. To induce to believe or accept a statement, doctrine, etc.; to convince that or of; to urge successfully to think, believe, etc. Also: to talk †from, into, out of, †to (a belief). Also occasionally intransitive. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)]

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tamper1687

to touch up1796

to put the comether on someone1818

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)]

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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon

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to prevail upon1656

to gain upon1790

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c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 894 This witty lady togyder didd them call..Persuadynge them..To thynke that they were creatures racionall And vndirstondyng hadd of good and ill.

a1484 Treat. Seven Liberal Arts in Speculum (1993) 68 1042 (MED) Thoffice of an oratour that he owith to do be Rethorik is to say wele..that is to say suche thynges þe whiche bien convenient and sufficient to persuade.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 40/2 In youth,..which is lighte of beliefe and sone perswaded.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 20 Yf hyt [i.e. the will] be persuadyd that gud ys yl & yl gud.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 156 These..perswade women that they can foretell them their fortune.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 132 To perswade their Hearers of the Utility..of following their advise.

1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques ii. xi. 26 To persuade us into so despicable an Opinion of your Reason.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. Pref. 31 He could not be persuaded that it actually was only the 24th of January.

1823 T. C. Grattan Father's Curse i I could not have been persuaded to the contrary by a host of cynical philosophers.

1844 Lady G. C. Fullerton Ellen Middleton xi We could persuade her out of those notions.

1934 C. W. Hendel Jean-Jacques Rousseau xx. 549 Earnestly seeking..to persuade him of the finality of her own religion.

2003 Jack May 223/3 Richard..persuaded him the film needed to be re-released for the benefit of a new generation of thrill-happy speed junkies.

b. reflexive. To bring oneself to believe that something is the case; to convince oneself; to become or be sure.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince oneself [verb (reflexive)]

persuade?1541

resolve1567

?1541 N. Udall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 4 I cannot persuad myself that your maistershipp hateth in me..any thyng excepte vices.

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Heb. vi. 9 We haue perswaded our selues better things of you [1611 Bible, Wee are perswaded better things of you].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 216 I perswade my selfe to speake the truth, Shall nothing wrong him.

1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 530 I cannot perswade my self, that God ever designed his Church for a Rude, Naked, Unbeautified Lump.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. Pref. p. xxviii Perswading themselves..that..their own Hypotheses will serve them.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 345 The good man can easiest persuade himself that God is good.

1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker x, in Wks. (1903) VII. 106 We secretly persuade ourselves that there is no such thing as excellence.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 41 Persuading one's self that men and women are to be studied in that fashion.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 400 He may suffer their memory to grow dim,..and all but persuade himself that they were not or at least were otherwise.

1987 C. Tomalin Katherine Mansfield ix. 122 They persuaded themselves they could live much more cheaply in France than in England.

c. In passive. To be or become convinced, assured, or certain that something is the case, or of something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince, be convincing [verb (intransitive)] > be convinced

persuade1547

to sup up1579

1547 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 12 June (1933) 311 And thus much may be said of hym that were fully perswaded of the foolishnesse of Legenda Aurea and the Festivall.

c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 9 Wee had sight of a saile..the which wee weare perswaded was one of our consorts.

1624 J. Fisher in Bp. F. White Replie Fishers Answere 300 I am persuaded no vnlearned man..will undertake it.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 152 I have a Key..that will, I am persuaded, open any Lock in Doubting Castle.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 15 Fully perswaded of the truth of it themselves.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 No one, I am persuaded, will suspect that this clause was put into St. Paul's defence.

1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 282 I am thoroughly persuaded that the notion..is a fallacy.

1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda viii. 112 He hated me, and hated worse to see me with Princess Flavia; yet I am persuaded that he tried to conceal both feelings.

1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 23 Aug. (1988) 54 The people in general are persuaded of the rightness of the German cause.

1995 New Yorker 22 May 55/1 I am persuaded that there is also such a thing as a rational decision to give up life.

a. transitive. To urge successfully to do something; to attract, induce, or entice to something or in a particular direction. Also: to talk into, †to, †unto a course of action, position, etc.; to dissuade successfully against, away from, from, off, out of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)]

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to touch up1796

to put the comether on someone1818

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 229 They perswade the kyng wilfully to take his deth aftre the accustumable vsaige observed of olde.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 The Quene being in this wise perswaded, suche woorde sente vnto her sonne, and vnto her brother.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xii. 14 [He] vsed al the meanes he coulde to perswade me from it.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 190* He had accorded divers other conditions, which no other persons could have perswaded him unto.

1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration 245 We are perswaded to venture our Eternal Happiness on that Belief.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. x. 406 Her Consort still persuaded her to enjoy the diversions of the court.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 381 To persuade the young and old against too much love for the body.

1777 C. Reeve Champion of Virtue 30 Let it be kept from my two cousins.., if they offer to be of the party I will persuade them off it.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance vii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 151 Persuading my clients away from me.

1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall ii. 17 I wish you'd just try to persuade Lou off a silly idea she's just got hold of.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo viii Hirsch could not be spoken to, reasoned with, or persuaded into a rational line of conduct.

1941 A. L. Rowse Tudor Cornwall xiv. 348 The object of which was to persuade him away from his stand for catholicism.

2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 15/1 An advertisement persuaded her to try the dietary supplement glucosamine.

†b. transitive. In extended use: to get as if by persuasion; to coax out of something. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > get by persuasion

persuade1887

1887 J. G. Nicolay & J. Hay Abraham Lincoln (1890) I. i. 25 It required..earnest and intelligent industry to persuade a living out of those barren hillocks and weedy hollows.

a. intransitive. To use persuasion or inducements to win a person over to some opinion or course of action; to plead, make entreaties.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)]

workOE

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to come over1741

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 14 ‘Syres,’ quod he, ‘y haue called yow togedre lest that yt be thought y do thys acte allone wythoute counseyle. Neuyrtheles remembre yow that youre part ys rathyr to obeye than to parsuade.’

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDiiii^v He wyll make other persons to couer his offence..or perswade & entreate for hym.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 93 How I perswaded, how I praid, and kneel'd.

1647 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Loves Cure v. iii. 144 Oh my sister..perswade, entreat, A Ladies teares are silent Orators.

1736 S. Duck Poems on Sev, Occasions 218 See Martial Phocion silently persuade, And smooth tongu'd Cicero, in Marble, plead.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. ix The magistrates might deliberate and persuade, the people only could resolve and execute.

1856 W. Whitman Song of Rolling Earth in Leaves of Grass 324 The earth does not argue..Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise.

a1857 R. W. Emerson Poems (1904) 117 No prayer persuades, no flattery fawns,—Their noble meanings are their bonds.

1907–9 H. James Roderick Hudson Pref. p. vii The very nature of the holes so to invite, to solicit, to persuade, to practise positively a thousand lures and deceits.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 5 Feb. 39 ‘Come to the kerb,’ we said, ‘you'll be killed.’... We persuaded, begged. ‘What's the point?’ she asked.

b. transitive. To attempt to induce or draw to do something; to urge, strongly advise, or plead with; to try to convince (that). Now rare (English regional (chiefly southern)).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)]

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1525 W. Warham Let. 5 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 371 In caas they finde any maner of sticking or difficultie in thayme, not to wade verey far to persuade thayme.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 35 Men of gret wytt..began to persuade the rest of the pepul to forsake that rudnes & uncomly lyfe.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 6 They perswaded him with great vehemence, that it was verie meete and conuenient.

1675 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 332 I persuaded the society to set it above the arches, but I was not then heard.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Ep. Ded. 2 It is amazing to me, that this Person should have Assurance in the face of the Sun, to go about persuading Your Highness, that our Age is almost wholly illiterate.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. to T. Poole in Lett. (1895) 186 That I should find you earnestly and vehemently persuading me to prefer Acton to Stowey.

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. vii. 85 This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses, Miss Morland.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 66 I persuaded him to see the Doctor, but he wouldn't do it.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 86 I've persuaded him times to have that tooth out, but he 'on't.

4. intransitive. To succeed in inducing or convincing by persuasion; to convince. Formerly with from, to, unto.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)]

workOE

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to come over1741

1558 T. Becon Pomander of Prayer 147 The worlde perswadeth vnto vanities.

1577 Earl of Leicester in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 373 We all do what we can, to persuade from any progress at all.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xxv. sig. H2 A sufficient motiue to perswade.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 176 Barber-Chirurgeons sometimes perswade to it.

1714 in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 29 The charming Youth Perswades with so much Eloquence and Truth.

1798 W. S. Landor Gebir i. 72 He went, nor slumber'd in the sultry noon When viands, couches, generous wines, persuade.

1846 G. F. Graham Eng. Synonymes 215 In order to persuade, we address the feelings and the imagination. In order to convince, we address the reasoning faculty.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvii. 269 His strong, sterling face progressively and silently persuaded of his full knowledge.

1910 S. Phillips Pietro of Siena ii. ii. 25 You as a woman to another may..prompt, disclose, and may at last persuade.

1992 Commentary Feb. 61/1 Pacifism's power to persuade counted as nothing against a nuclear-armed enemy.

II. With a thing as object.

†5.

a. transitive. To lead a person to believe in (a fact, statement, opinion, etc.) or that (something is the case); to prove or demonstrate (a thing) to, unto a person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > of something

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c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 243 And such thynges as by repoort may be persuaded vnto the herers of liklihood to be trew, summetyme to be in distaunce farre from the veritie and trouth in effect.

1528 G. de Cassalis et al. Let. Wolsey in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xxiii. 46 It was wel known and persuaded to the Kings Highnes and your Gr. of the gret zeal, love, and affection that his Holynes bearith towards them both.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 118^v We shal..perswade them the rather the truth of our cause.

1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 97 The grossest errours, if they..be but new, may be perswaded to the multitude.

1685 J. Johnston tr. J. B. Bossuet Expos. Doctr. Catholic Church ii. 3 This is what they endeavour to perswade.

1701 C. Trotter Love at Loss iii. 31 There need not much pains, I find, to persuade this thing, he is belov'd.

1715 A. Pope tr. Dionysius in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 151 A Man must not use weak Arguments, or such as may make against him, when he intends to persuade the Thing he says.

b. transitive. To induce the doing or practice of (an act, course of action, etc.) by argument, entreaty, reasoning, etc.; to inculcate, urge successfully unto someone. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > induce (an action, etc.) by persuasion

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 18^v A philosophier..persuadyng the contempte of golde & siluer.

1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre iv. f. xlv To perswade, or to diswade a thyng vnto fewe, is verie easie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 176 Your King..Sends me a Paper to perswade me Patience?

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 188 The taxes..were rather perswaded then imposed upon them.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 45 Rational considerations, apt..to persuade contentedness.

1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman II. 294 But what need..of so many arguments to persuade that which is so conformable to their disposition?

1840 J. H. Newman tr. St. Basil Let. in Church of Fathers vii. 104 I know letters are but feeble instruments to persuade so great a thing.

†a. transitive. To advocate, advise, or commend to adoption (an act, course of action, etc.) or that something be done. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] > advocate (a course of action, etc.)

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a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 53 He garris appeire to him that the thing that he persuadis be..proffitabile.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 619 Megabyses..perswaded the Oligarchical gouernment.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 44 Physicians perswade that..the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. i. vi. 312 In Diseases of the Head (if the Circulation did not perswade the contrary) the opening of the Cephalick Vein would help a little more.

1777 G. Colman Epicoene v. 320 A couple of mercenary companions to be brought in..to persuade a separation!

1781 M. Madan Thelyphthora III. 326 He always perswades a public marriage.

b. transitive. To recommend the acceptance of (a statement, opinion, etc.); to urge as credible or true; to go to prove, make probable. In later use also with upon: to convince a person that (something) is the case. rare after early 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > be proof of

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a1525 J. Irland Of Penance & Confession in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 4 And..I propone to perswade aganis the perswasioun of the enemy that all personis..in syn suld do pennance.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 128 There was none that better coulde..perswade with His Majestie the great importance of that ambassage.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xix. 8 Disputing and perswading the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

1687 G. Towerson Baptism 113 The former of these perswading Men's being under sin from some inward principle.

1733 A. Pope Ess. on Man in Wks. (1736) II. 25 From a judge, turn pleader, to persuade The choice we make, or justify it made.

1973 Times 19 Nov. 15/1 His ministers will clearly have difficulty persuading it [sc. the theory of suffering from success] upon ordinary people.

†III. With with.

a. intransitive. To use persuasion, plead, or expostulate with. Also occasionally: to prevail with. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).

ΚΠ

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 167 Arbaces..persuaded with theym to gete the roialme of the Assirians.

1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession vii. sig. Yi Not doubtyng but..that he hym self would so perswade with his brother, that she should bee heard to speake in her owne defence.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 2 Iesus, whom hee sent from Heauen to perswade with these Hus-band-men.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 279 The Magnificoes of greatest port haue all perswaded with him.

1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 235 A good man may easily have the meanes to perswade with a licentious and tumultuous people, and so reduce them to reason.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 60 Whoever they could perswade with, they made so too.

1837 F. Kemble Star of Seville iv. ii. 101 'Tis in vain persuading with her—she drowns all counsel in a sea of tears.

b. intransitive. figurative. Of a thing: to have influence or weight with; to prevail or avail with. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)]

to carry the sway of1549

persuade1618

to go a long (also great, short, etc.) way1624

1618 Let. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 10 You and I well know, that this stile most perswades with them.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 146 I saw..that neither perswasions, nor protestations would perswade with her.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxiv. 23) 275 Profit perswades mightily with the multitude.

a. intransitive. With subordinate clause: to use persuasion or argument with, so as to convince that something is the case; to convince. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince, be convincing [verb (intransitive)]

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1535 T. Cranmer Let. 12 May in J. Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) App. 19 I cannot persuade with myself, that he so much tendereth the King's cause, as he doth his own.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Pref. sig. Aii^v God..perswaded with them what was good, what was badde, and was gainefull for mankynde.

1651 R. Vaughan Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxi. 561 This Evidence doth perswade with me, that Cadwalader went to Rome far before Anno 680.

b. intransitive. To convince a person by argument or inducement to do something, or that something should be done. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)]

workOE

tilla1400

persuadea1500

persuade?c1550

persuade1558

to come over1741

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. iv. 140 Quendreda..wente abowte to persuade with her husbande that he showld murther Ethelbertus.

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 59 S. Augustin persuadeth with him to leaue the Manichees.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 406 His friends perswaded with him that voluntarily, he would..give over this violent and lordly rule.

1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 61 His Doctors..perswaded with him..to vent that humour.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	persuade
释义	† persuaden. Forms: 1500s persuade, 1500s perswade, 1600s perswaid. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: persuade v. Etymology: < persuade v. Compare earlier persuading n., persuasion n., and slightly later persuase n. Obsolete. An act of persuading; an argument intended to persuade. Cf. persuasion n. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] leadinga1300 suasionc1374 persuasionc1384 inducingc1480 induction1490 persuading1530 persuade1590 persuase1599 overswaying1611 inducementa1616 moral suasion1642 sales pitchery1968 1590 T. Watson Eglogue vpon Death Walsingham sig. C4^v Thy learnd persuades command my sorrow cease. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. G^v She happely might be woone by thy perswades. 1595 J. Trussel To Reader in R. Southwell Triumphs ouer Death sig. A4 Since no perswades suffice To cause them reade, except the spirit moue. a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) i. i. 10 The king's entreats Perswaids of freinds..can [not] moue him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). persuadev. Brit. /pəˈsweɪd/, U.S. /pərˈsweɪd/ Forms: late Middle English–1700s perswade, late Middle English– persuade, 1500s parsuade, 1500s parswade, 1500s persuad, 1500s perswaid, 1500s perswaude, 1500s–1600s perswarde (probably transmission error), 1600s perswaide, 1600s perswed; Scottish pre-1700 parsuade, pre-1700 parswade, pre-1700 persewade, pre-1700 persuadd, pre-1700 persuaed, pre-1700 persuaid, pre-1700 persude, pre-1700 perswad, pre-1700 perswadd, pre-1700 perswade, pre-1700 perswaid, pre-1700 1700s– persuade. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French persuader; Latin persuādēre. Etymology: < Middle French, French persuader to persuade or convince (someone of something or to do something) (c1370) and its etymon classical Latin persuādēre to persuade (someone to do something), to prevail upon, to cause (something) to be believed (by someone), (reflexive) to convince oneself, (passive) to be convinced, to induce the doing or practice of, to recommend < per- per- prefix + suādēre to advise, recommend, urge as desirable (see suade v.). Compare Catalan persuadir (15th cent.), Spanish persuadir (c1428 or earlier), Portuguese persuadir (16th cent.; earlier as †persuader (15th cent.)), Italian persuadere (1319). I. Senses relating to persons. 1. transitive. With a person as object. a. To induce to believe or accept a statement, doctrine, etc.; to convince that or of; to urge successfully to think, believe, etc. Also: to talk †from, into, out of, †to (a belief). Also occasionally intransitive. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] leada1225 accoya1375 form1399 persuadec1450 persuadec1487 practise1524 temper1525 work1532 suade1548 perduce1563 to draw on1567 overdraw1603 possess1607 bring1611 sway1625 tickle1677 tamper1687 to touch up1796 to put the comether on someone1818 the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] persuadec1450 ensurec1500 satisfyc1520 convict1583 forcea1586 move1590 possess1591 secure1602 confirm1607 convince1609 convince1632 induce1655 prepossessa1676 coax1676 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon wina1340 persuadec1450 to prevail withc1450 prevail1466 train1549 overswaya1586 oppugn1596 overrulea1616 reach1637 to prevail upon1656 to gain upon1790 convince1958 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 894 This witty lady togyder didd them call..Persuadynge them..To thynke that they were creatures racionall And vndirstondyng hadd of good and ill. a1484 Treat. Seven Liberal Arts in Speculum (1993) 68 1042 (MED) Thoffice of an oratour that he owith to do be Rethorik is to say wele..that is to say suche thynges þe whiche bien convenient and sufficient to persuade. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 40/2 In youth,..which is lighte of beliefe and sone perswaded. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 20 Yf hyt [i.e. the will] be persuadyd that gud ys yl & yl gud. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 156 These..perswade women that they can foretell them their fortune. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 132 To perswade their Hearers of the Utility..of following their advise. 1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques ii. xi. 26 To persuade us into so despicable an Opinion of your Reason. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. Pref. 31 He could not be persuaded that it actually was only the 24th of January. 1823 T. C. Grattan Father's Curse i I could not have been persuaded to the contrary by a host of cynical philosophers. 1844 Lady G. C. Fullerton Ellen Middleton xi We could persuade her out of those notions. 1934 C. W. Hendel Jean-Jacques Rousseau xx. 549 Earnestly seeking..to persuade him of the finality of her own religion. 2003 Jack May 223/3 Richard..persuaded him the film needed to be re-released for the benefit of a new generation of thrill-happy speed junkies. b. reflexive. To bring oneself to believe that something is the case; to convince oneself; to become or be sure. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince oneself [verb (reflexive)] persuade?1541 resolve1567 ?1541 N. Udall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 4 I cannot persuad myself that your maistershipp hateth in me..any thyng excepte vices. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Heb. vi. 9 We haue perswaded our selues better things of you [1611 Bible, Wee are perswaded better things of you]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 216 I perswade my selfe to speake the truth, Shall nothing wrong him. 1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 530 I cannot perswade my self, that God ever designed his Church for a Rude, Naked, Unbeautified Lump. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. Pref. p. xxviii Perswading themselves..that..their own Hypotheses will serve them. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 345 The good man can easiest persuade himself that God is good. 1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker x, in Wks. (1903) VII. 106 We secretly persuade ourselves that there is no such thing as excellence. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 41 Persuading one's self that men and women are to be studied in that fashion. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 400 He may suffer their memory to grow dim,..and all but persuade himself that they were not or at least were otherwise. 1987 C. Tomalin Katherine Mansfield ix. 122 They persuaded themselves they could live much more cheaply in France than in England. c. In passive. To be or become convinced, assured, or certain that something is the case, or of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince, be convincing [verb (intransitive)] > be convinced persuade1547 to sup up1579 1547 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 12 June (1933) 311 And thus much may be said of hym that were fully perswaded of the foolishnesse of Legenda Aurea and the Festivall. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 9 Wee had sight of a saile..the which wee weare perswaded was one of our consorts. 1624 J. Fisher in Bp. F. White Replie Fishers Answere 300 I am persuaded no vnlearned man..will undertake it. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 152 I have a Key..that will, I am persuaded, open any Lock in Doubting Castle. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 15 Fully perswaded of the truth of it themselves. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 No one, I am persuaded, will suspect that this clause was put into St. Paul's defence. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 282 I am thoroughly persuaded that the notion..is a fallacy. 1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda viii. 112 He hated me, and hated worse to see me with Princess Flavia; yet I am persuaded that he tried to conceal both feelings. 1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 23 Aug. (1988) 54 The people in general are persuaded of the rightness of the German cause. 1995 New Yorker 22 May 55/1 I am persuaded that there is also such a thing as a rational decision to give up life. 2. a. transitive. To urge successfully to do something; to attract, induce, or entice to something or in a particular direction. Also: to talk into, †to, †unto a course of action, position, etc.; to dissuade successfully against, away from, from, off, out of. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] leada1225 accoya1375 form1399 persuadec1450 persuadec1487 practise1524 temper1525 work1532 suade1548 perduce1563 to draw on1567 overdraw1603 possess1607 bring1611 sway1625 tickle1677 tamper1687 to touch up1796 to put the comether on someone1818 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 229 They perswade the kyng wilfully to take his deth aftre the accustumable vsaige observed of olde. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 The Quene being in this wise perswaded, suche woorde sente vnto her sonne, and vnto her brother. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xii. 14 [He] vsed al the meanes he coulde to perswade me from it. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 190* He had accorded divers other conditions, which no other persons could have perswaded him unto. 1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration 245 We are perswaded to venture our Eternal Happiness on that Belief. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. x. 406 Her Consort still persuaded her to enjoy the diversions of the court. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. ix. 381 To persuade the young and old against too much love for the body. 1777 C. Reeve Champion of Virtue 30 Let it be kept from my two cousins.., if they offer to be of the party I will persuade them off it. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance vii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 151 Persuading my clients away from me. 1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fall ii. 17 I wish you'd just try to persuade Lou off a silly idea she's just got hold of. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo viii Hirsch could not be spoken to, reasoned with, or persuaded into a rational line of conduct. 1941 A. L. Rowse Tudor Cornwall xiv. 348 The object of which was to persuade him away from his stand for catholicism. 2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 15/1 An advertisement persuaded her to try the dietary supplement glucosamine. †b. transitive. In extended use: to get as if by persuasion; to coax out of something. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > get by persuasion persuade1887 1887 J. G. Nicolay & J. Hay Abraham Lincoln (1890) I. i. 25 It required..earnest and intelligent industry to persuade a living out of those barren hillocks and weedy hollows. 3. a. intransitive. To use persuasion or inducements to win a person over to some opinion or course of action; to plead, make entreaties. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] workOE tilla1400 persuadea1500 persuade?c1550 persuade1558 to come over1741 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 14 ‘Syres,’ quod he, ‘y haue called yow togedre lest that yt be thought y do thys acte allone wythoute counseyle. Neuyrtheles remembre yow that youre part ys rathyr to obeye than to parsuade.’ 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDiiii^v He wyll make other persons to couer his offence..or perswade & entreate for hym. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 93 How I perswaded, how I praid, and kneel'd. View more context for this quotation 1647 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Loves Cure v. iii. 144 Oh my sister..perswade, entreat, A Ladies teares are silent Orators. 1736 S. Duck Poems on Sev, Occasions 218 See Martial Phocion silently persuade, And smooth tongu'd Cicero, in Marble, plead. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. ix The magistrates might deliberate and persuade, the people only could resolve and execute. 1856 W. Whitman Song of Rolling Earth in Leaves of Grass 324 The earth does not argue..Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise. a1857 R. W. Emerson Poems (1904) 117 No prayer persuades, no flattery fawns,—Their noble meanings are their bonds. 1907–9 H. James Roderick Hudson Pref. p. vii The very nature of the holes so to invite, to solicit, to persuade, to practise positively a thousand lures and deceits. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 5 Feb. 39 ‘Come to the kerb,’ we said, ‘you'll be killed.’... We persuaded, begged. ‘What's the point?’ she asked. b. transitive. To attempt to induce or draw to do something; to urge, strongly advise, or plead with; to try to convince (that). Now rare (English regional (chiefly southern)). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] redeOE rothec1175 beredea1225 counsel1297 informc1350 richc1400 accounsel1509 persuade1525 vise1528 underprompt1548 aread1559 resolve1579 direct1776–81 1525 W. Warham Let. 5 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 371 In caas they finde any maner of sticking or difficultie in thayme, not to wade verey far to persuade thayme. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 35 Men of gret wytt..began to persuade the rest of the pepul to forsake that rudnes & uncomly lyfe. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 6 They perswaded him with great vehemence, that it was verie meete and conuenient. 1675 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 332 I persuaded the society to set it above the arches, but I was not then heard. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Ep. Ded. 2 It is amazing to me, that this Person should have Assurance in the face of the Sun, to go about persuading Your Highness, that our Age is almost wholly illiterate. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. to T. Poole in Lett. (1895) 186 That I should find you earnestly and vehemently persuading me to prefer Acton to Stowey. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. vii. 85 This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses, Miss Morland. View more context for this quotation 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 66 I persuaded him to see the Doctor, but he wouldn't do it. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 86 I've persuaded him times to have that tooth out, but he 'on't. 4. intransitive. To succeed in inducing or convincing by persuasion; to convince. Formerly with from, to, unto. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] workOE tilla1400 persuadea1500 persuade?c1550 persuade1558 to come over1741 1558 T. Becon Pomander of Prayer 147 The worlde perswadeth vnto vanities. 1577 Earl of Leicester in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 373 We all do what we can, to persuade from any progress at all. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. xxv. sig. H2 A sufficient motiue to perswade. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 176 Barber-Chirurgeons sometimes perswade to it. 1714 in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 29 The charming Youth Perswades with so much Eloquence and Truth. 1798 W. S. Landor Gebir i. 72 He went, nor slumber'd in the sultry noon When viands, couches, generous wines, persuade. 1846 G. F. Graham Eng. Synonymes 215 In order to persuade, we address the feelings and the imagination. In order to convince, we address the reasoning faculty. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvii. 269 His strong, sterling face progressively and silently persuaded of his full knowledge. 1910 S. Phillips Pietro of Siena ii. ii. 25 You as a woman to another may..prompt, disclose, and may at last persuade. 1992 Commentary Feb. 61/1 Pacifism's power to persuade counted as nothing against a nuclear-armed enemy. II. With a thing as object. †5. a. transitive. To lead a person to believe in (a fact, statement, opinion, etc.) or that (something is the case); to prove or demonstrate (a thing) to, unto a person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > of something persuadec1487 resolve1567 evict1594 credit1611 evince1621 secure1630 sell1916 sell1918 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 243 And such thynges as by repoort may be persuaded vnto the herers of liklihood to be trew, summetyme to be in distaunce farre from the veritie and trouth in effect. 1528 G. de Cassalis et al. Let. Wolsey in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xxiii. 46 It was wel known and persuaded to the Kings Highnes and your Gr. of the gret zeal, love, and affection that his Holynes bearith towards them both. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 118^v We shal..perswade them the rather the truth of our cause. 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 97 The grossest errours, if they..be but new, may be perswaded to the multitude. 1685 J. Johnston tr. J. B. Bossuet Expos. Doctr. Catholic Church ii. 3 This is what they endeavour to perswade. 1701 C. Trotter Love at Loss iii. 31 There need not much pains, I find, to persuade this thing, he is belov'd. 1715 A. Pope tr. Dionysius in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 151 A Man must not use weak Arguments, or such as may make against him, when he intends to persuade the Thing he says. b. transitive. To induce the doing or practice of (an act, course of action, etc.) by argument, entreaty, reasoning, etc.; to inculcate, urge successfully unto someone. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > induce (an action, etc.) by persuasion persuade1542 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 18^v A philosophier..persuadyng the contempte of golde & siluer. 1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre iv. f. xlv To perswade, or to diswade a thyng vnto fewe, is verie easie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 176 Your King..Sends me a Paper to perswade me Patience? View more context for this quotation 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 188 The taxes..were rather perswaded then imposed upon them. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 45 Rational considerations, apt..to persuade contentedness. 1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman II. 294 But what need..of so many arguments to persuade that which is so conformable to their disposition? 1840 J. H. Newman tr. St. Basil Let. in Church of Fathers vii. 104 I know letters are but feeble instruments to persuade so great a thing. 6. †a. transitive. To advocate, advise, or commend to adoption (an act, course of action, etc.) or that something be done. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] > advocate (a course of action, etc.) redeOE enhort1382 counsel1393 admonishc1405 sustain?c1450 exhortc1500 persuadea1513 urge1596 advise1597 unwarn1612 paraenesize1716 recommend1734 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 53 He garris appeire to him that the thing that he persuadis be..proffitabile. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 619 Megabyses..perswaded the Oligarchical gouernment. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 44 Physicians perswade that..the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Man. i. vi. 312 In Diseases of the Head (if the Circulation did not perswade the contrary) the opening of the Cephalick Vein would help a little more. 1777 G. Colman Epicoene v. 320 A couple of mercenary companions to be brought in..to persuade a separation! 1781 M. Madan Thelyphthora III. 326 He always perswades a public marriage. b. transitive. To recommend the acceptance of (a statement, opinion, etc.); to urge as credible or true; to go to prove, make probable. In later use also with upon: to convince a person that (something) is the case. rare after early 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > be proof of provea1200 showa1325 declarec1400 verifyc1430 givec1449 persuadea1525 arguea1538 demonstrate1572 argue1585 put1596 evidence1611 evident1643 to make out1795 a1525 J. Irland Of Penance & Confession in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 4 And..I propone to perswade aganis the perswasioun of the enemy that all personis..in syn suld do pennance. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 128 There was none that better coulde..perswade with His Majestie the great importance of that ambassage. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xix. 8 Disputing and perswading the things concerning the Kingdom of God. View more context for this quotation 1687 G. Towerson Baptism 113 The former of these perswading Men's being under sin from some inward principle. 1733 A. Pope Ess. on Man in Wks. (1736) II. 25 From a judge, turn pleader, to persuade The choice we make, or justify it made. 1973 Times 19 Nov. 15/1 His ministers will clearly have difficulty persuading it [sc. the theory of suffering from success] upon ordinary people. †III. With with. 7. a. intransitive. To use persuasion, plead, or expostulate with. Also occasionally: to prevail with. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.). ΚΠ c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 167 Arbaces..persuaded with theym to gete the roialme of the Assirians. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession vii. sig. Yi Not doubtyng but..that he hym self would so perswade with his brother, that she should bee heard to speake in her owne defence. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 2 Iesus, whom hee sent from Heauen to perswade with these Hus-band-men. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 279 The Magnificoes of greatest port haue all perswaded with him. View more context for this quotation 1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 235 A good man may easily have the meanes to perswade with a licentious and tumultuous people, and so reduce them to reason. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 60 Whoever they could perswade with, they made so too. View more context for this quotation 1837 F. Kemble Star of Seville iv. ii. 101 'Tis in vain persuading with her—she drowns all counsel in a sea of tears. b. intransitive. figurative. Of a thing: to have influence or weight with; to prevail or avail with. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] to carry the sway of1549 persuade1618 to go a long (also great, short, etc.) way1624 1618 Let. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 10 You and I well know, that this stile most perswades with them. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 146 I saw..that neither perswasions, nor protestations would perswade with her. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxiv. 23) 275 Profit perswades mightily with the multitude. 8. a. intransitive. With subordinate clause: to use persuasion or argument with, so as to convince that something is the case; to convince. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince, be convincing [verb (intransitive)] fish1413 persuade1535 1535 T. Cranmer Let. 12 May in J. Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) App. 19 I cannot persuade with myself, that he so much tendereth the King's cause, as he doth his own. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Pref. sig. Aii^v God..perswaded with them what was good, what was badde, and was gainefull for mankynde. 1651 R. Vaughan Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxi. 561 This Evidence doth perswade with me, that Cadwalader went to Rome far before Anno 680. b. intransitive. To convince a person by argument or inducement to do something, or that something should be done. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] workOE tilla1400 persuadea1500 persuade?c1550 persuade1558 to come over1741 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. iv. 140 Quendreda..wente abowte to persuade with her husbande that he showld murther Ethelbertus. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 59 S. Augustin persuadeth with him to leaue the Manichees. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 406 His friends perswaded with him that voluntarily, he would..give over this violent and lordly rule. 1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 61 His Doctors..perswaded with him..to vent that humour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590v.c1450
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