PERSUA'DE, verb transitive [Latin persuadeo; per and suadeo, to urge or incite.] 1. To influence by argument, advice, intreaty or expostulation; to draw or incline the will to a determination by presenting motives to the mind. I should be glad, if I could persuade him to write such another critick on any thing of mine. Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian. Acts 26:26. 2. To convince by argument, or reasons offered; or to convince by reasons suggested by reflection or deliberation, or by evidence presented in any manner to the mind. Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. Hebrews 6:9. 3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. [Little used.] 4. To treat by persuasion. [Not in use.]
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