Definition of Perswaded

1. Verb. (past of perswade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perswaded

1. perswade [v] - See also: perswade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perswaded

persulfides
persulfurane
persulfuric
persulfuric acid
persulphate
persulphates
persulphide
persulphocyanate
persulphocyanates
persulphocyanic
persulphocyanic acid
persulphocyanogen
persulphuret
persulphurets
perswade
perswaded (current term)
perswades
persymmetric
persymmetry
pert
pertain
pertained
pertaineth
pertaining
pertainment
pertainments
pertains
pertainym
pertainyms
pertake

Literary usage of Perswaded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... as soon as he was at Sea, those gentlemen would have perswaded the King to haue gon to rights for Brest, but the King did not think fit to do that, ..."

2. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"... New-England might yet have been scarce knowne, I am perswaded, not so replenished & inhabited with honest English people, as it now is. ..."

3. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1877)
"eral importance, that I am perswaded it will draw your Lordships immediate attention. I flatter myself that your Lordships will excuse my writing thus ..."

4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"THE Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife : the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne ..."

5. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1827)
"A gentleman in Ly- mosen (saith Anthony Verdeur), was perswaded he had but one legg: ... perswaded ..."

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