suasive

English

Adjective

suasive (comparative more suasive, superlative most suasive)

1. (archaic or eye dialect) Having power to persuade; persuasive.
   • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:

     genial and suasive satire

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     It had the passions in perfect subjection; and though its command over them was but suasive and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and despotical.

Related terms

• suasively

References

• “suasive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.