Definition of persuade

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Persuade (v. t.) To try to influence.

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Persuasibility :: Persuasibility (n.) Capability of being persuaded.
Overpersuade :: Overpersuade (v. t.) To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.
Pun :: Pun (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.
Believe :: Believe (n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine..
Persuade :: Persuade (v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
Dissuade :: Dissuade (v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
Suasion :: Suasible (a.) Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.
Facility :: Facility (n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
Inexorable :: Inexorable (a.) Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge..
Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it..
Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free..
Steady :: Steady (n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object..
Facile :: Facile (a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Force :: Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term..
Edify :: Edify (v. i.) To teach or persuade.
Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason..
Persuasible :: Persuasible (a.) Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
Believer :: Believer (n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing..
Epideictic :: Epideictic (a.) Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade..
Disbelief :: Disbelief (n.) The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief..
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