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单词 persuader
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persuadern.

Brit. /pəˈsweɪdə/, U.S. /pərˈsweɪdər/
Forms: 1500s–1700s perswader, 1500s– persuader; Scottish pre-1700 persuadair, pre-1700 persuadar, pre-1700 perswadair, pre-1700 perswadar, pre-1700 perswader, pre-1700 1700s– persuader.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: persuade v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < persuade v. + -er suffix1. With sense 1 compare Middle French, French persuadeur person who persuades (1507; earlier as parsuadeur (1485), with negative connotation; now rare).
1. A person who or thing which is persuasive, or persuades someone (†of an action).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > one who persuades
persuader1538
inducer1554
psychagogue1847
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Persuasor, a perswader or inducer to do a thynge.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 86 b Neyther is S. Paule..a persuader of vowes makynge.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 148 The euill persuaders of rebellion, preuailed with him.
1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. xxxviii. 458 His friend..was both his Companion, and his perswader to undertake this journey.
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 94 The sweet Perswader speaks.
1838–9 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 39 The..canoes..are very inviting persuaders to this species of exercise.
1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiv. 255 That the topics insisted on by the persuader shall be adapted to the feelings..of the persuadend.
1957 V. Packard Hidden Persuaders (1962) i. 13 Sombre examples of the new persuaders in action are appearing not only in merchandising but in politics and industrial relations.
1992 Harper's Mag. July 52 My father, who was more a persuader than an intimidator, had made it a point of honor that I join him on the picket line.
2. In extended use.
a. slang. Something used to compel submission or compliance, esp. a gun or other weapon.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > agency or means of
compulsorya1513
screw1618
wrench1622
compulsive1638
coercitive1651
coercive1651
enforcive1686
persuader1788
steamroller1896
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) Persuaders, spurs.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxiv. 401 I did n't admire his carryin' them murderous little persuaders, and being so ready to use 'em.
1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman xiv ‘Don't you go in “persuaders”—spurs, you know?’ Mr. Pokyr explained.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 221 Persuader, a nickname for the club, or knob-kerry, carried by trench raiders. Also, bayonet.
1974 P. Cave Mama (new ed.) xiv. 113 ‘How the hell are you gonna persuade the guy to pull off the road?’ asked Ethel... ‘I've thought of that,’ answered Mama coldly... ‘I'm gonna have to take along a little persuader.’
1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton i. 10 She called on the saints to strengthen her paddle, ‘the household persuader’, against sass and shiftlessness.
b. Printing. A tool used as a lever by a compositor to help fit type and furniture into a chase. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > tools
shooting-stick1683
bodkin1846
planer1858
straight-edge1888
persuader1898
1898 J. Southward Mod. Printing I. xli. 257 Fit the quoins, using the ‘persuader’ to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all round. The ‘persuader’ is usually a tool made by the compositor himself... The tool is a lever whereby the space between the type matter and the chase can be expanded.
c. Television. In an image orthicon camera tube: an electrode which deflects the returning beam of scanning electrons into the electron multiplier. Usually attributive. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1946 RCA Rev. 7 361 The persuader electrode is tied electrically to the first stage.
1967 H. A. Cole Basic Television i. 56 The returning electrons are diverted on to the first dynode of the electron multiplier by an electrode aptly named the persuader grid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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