Dissuade /(?)/

Dis·suade

Dissuade

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Dissuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissuading

  1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent]
    Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter.
    War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades.
  2. To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
    I have tried what is possible to dissuade him.