Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PER-SUADE', v.t. [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 critic on any thing of mine. – Dryden. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. – Acts xxv.
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 ere persuaded better things of you. – Heb. vi.
3. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. [Little used.] – Taylor.
4. To treat by persuasion. [Not in use.] – Shak.