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suasive, a. and n.|ˈsweɪsɪv|
Also 7 swasive.
[ad. L. *suāsīvus, f. suās-: see suasible; cf. obs. F. suasif, It., Sp. suasivo.]
A. adj. Having or exercizing the power of persuading or urging; consisting in or tending to suasion; occas. const. of, exhorting or urging to.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. A 3 b, Deliuer but in swasive eloquence Both of my life and death the veritie. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 28 The puissant people of Rome, whose practice may be thought most swasive with this..military Age. 1662South Serm. (1697) I. 62 Tho its command over them was but suasive, and political, yet it had the force of coaction. 1790Cowper Odyss. x. 206 And in wing'd accents suasive thus began. 1871Earle Philol. Engl. Tongue 313 The genial and suasive satire of the Biglow Papers. 1888T. E. Holland in Macm. Mag. Sept. 359/1 These presents bore Latin inscriptions, suasive of eating and drinking. 1897Trotter John Nicholson 18 Thanks to the suasive influence of British gold.
B. n. A suasive speech, motive, or influence.
1670Phil. Trans. V. 1092, I shall not doubt but this Consideration will have the force of a great swasive. 1855H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. vii. 335 By proper importunity, by flattering suasives. 1877Smith & Wace's Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 476/2 Bribes, and tempting offers..were the suasives employed to induce the Armenians to renounce their faith.
b. pl. Used to render the title Suasoriae of one of the works of Seneca the rhetorician.
1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xli. IV. 565 [Seneca] divides into the two classes of Suasives and Controversies the subjects of their scholastic exercises. |