Definition of Perswades

1. perswade [v] - See also: perswade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perswades

persulfurane
persulfuric
persulfuric acid
persulphate
persulphates
persulphide
persulphocyanate
persulphocyanates
persulphocyanic
persulphocyanic acid
persulphocyanogen
persulphuret
persulphurets
perswade
perswaded
perswades (current term)
persymmetric
persymmetry
pert
pertain
pertained
pertaineth
pertaining
pertainment
pertainments
pertains
pertainym
pertainyms
pertake
pertaken

Literary usage of Perswades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections by New-York Historical Society, Malone Society (1821)
"When they are curable, hee perswades them hee sends the same for some ... but i\hen they are mor- tall, and not curable in nature, then he perswades them ..."

2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1852)
"One unto reading Scripture men perswades, One labour bids for food that never ... One he perswades men buy the truth, not sell, One would men should in ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"When they are curable, hee perswades them hee sends the same for some conceived anger against them, but upon their calling upon him can and doth helpe them ..."

4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"When they are curable, hee perswades them hee sends the same for some conceived anger against them, but upon their calling upon him can and doth helpe them ..."

5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"So, if he perswades any, &c. though he has not, nor pretends to have power to ... So, if any "pretends authority to absolve, or perswades n subject from his ..."

6. Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of by John Milton (1819)
"2 I could name him who from his privat house wrote that Discourse to the Parlament of Athens, that perswades them to change the forme of Democraty which ..."

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