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PERSUA'DE, L. 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

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

3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. Little used.
4. To treat by persuasion. Not in use.
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Entry for 'Persuade'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/persuade.html.
 
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