perswade

English

Verb

perswade (third-person singular simple present perswades, present participle perswading, simple past and past participle perswaded)

1. Obsolete spelling of persuade.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

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