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From Latin persuādeō (“to persuade”). Cognate to for, sweet.

persuade (third-person singular simple present persuades, present participle persuading, simple past and past participle persuaded)

  1. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. [from 15th c.]
    Synonyms: convince, draw, coax, wheedle; see also Thesaurus:persuade
    Antonyms: deter, dissuade
    Hypernym: change someone's mind
    That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
    • 1577, Socrates Scholasticus [_i.e._, Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. [...], book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225:
      [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      We will persuade him, be it possible.
    • 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
      The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
  3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]
    • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009 edition, page 119:
      She did not go into the coffee-room, though repeatedly persuaded by Miss Woodley, but waited at the door till her carriage drew up.
    • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 12:
      He did not persuade me long before I consented.

to successfully convince (someone) to agree to

persuade

  1. inflection of persuader:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

persuade

  1. third-person singular present indicative of persuadere

  2. ^ persuado in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

persuādē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of persuādeō

persuade

  1. inflection of persuadir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

persuade

  1. inflection of persuadir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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