suasive

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English

Adjective

suasive (comparative more suasive, superlative most suasive)

  1. (archaic) 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, volumes (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suasive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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