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assuasive, a. and n. ? Obs.|əˈsweɪsɪv|
[f. as- prefix1 + -suasive, as in persuasive (cf. assuade); but confused in sense with assuage.]
A. adj. Soothingly persuasive; soothing.
1708Pope St. Cecilia 25 Music her soft assuasive voice applies. a1762Lady Montague Poems (1785) 63 There blend your cares with soft assuasive arts There sooth the passions, there unfold your hearts. 1791Cowper Iliad xv. 485 Sprinkling with drugs assuasive of his pains. 1854Dickens Hard T. iii. iii. 282 His so quiet and assuasive father-in-law.
B. n. A soothing medicine or application.
1829Jrnl. Naturalist 77 The lenient assuasives of our forefathers seeming unequal to contention with the constitutions of these days. |