Word Meanings - PERSUADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.

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• CONVINCIBLE
  1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. Sir T. Browne.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• CONVINCER
  One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
• INFLUENCIVE
  Tending toinfluence; influential.
• PREVAILINGLY
  So as to prevail.
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• PREVAIL
  1. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek
• ARGUMENTABLE
  Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• ARGUMENT
  The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. (more info) 1. Proof; evidence. There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it
• CONVINCINGNESS
  The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
• CONVINCE
  1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy
• CONVINCEMENT
  Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. The fear of a convincement. Milton.
• CONVINCINGLY
  in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
• ARGUMENTATION
  1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be
• PREVAILMENT
  Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. Shak.
• PREVAILING
  1. Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. Shak. Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers. Rowe. 2. Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. Syn.
• INCONVINCIBLY
  In a manner not admitting of being convinced.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• INCONVINCIBLE
  Not convincible; incapable of being convinced. None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Gov. of the Tongue.
• OVERINFLUENCE
  To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.