perswade

present singular third person perswades · participle present perswading · participle past perswaded · past perswaded

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of persuade.

   See the frowardneſſe of this Man, he would perſwade us that the Succeſſion and divine Right of Biſhopdom hath bin unqueſtionable through all Ages;

   1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 143

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   Howbeit Lyſander the ſonne of Lybis, and Mandroclidas the ſonne of Esphanes, and Ageſilaus alſo, greatly commended his noble deſire, and perſwaded him to goe forward withall.

   1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851

   I wil vſe ſome motiues to perſwade all that find themſelues afſeted with this ſickneſſe, to deſire with all earneſtneſſe that they may be cured, that ſo they may be made willing alſo to apply the remedies.

   1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 49