over-perˈsuade, v.
[over- 11.]
trans. To bring over by persuasion, persuade effectually; esp. to persuade (a person) to some action or course against his own judgement or inclination.
| 1624 in Capt. J. Smith (K.O.). 1639 Fuller Holy War iii. xxvi. (1840) 166 They overpersuaded him not to starve an army by feeding his own humours. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones iii. ii, Nor had he done it now, had not the younger Sportsman..over-persuaded him. 1897 Henty On Irrawaddy 350, I had proposed to myself not to marry..but your sister overpersuaded me. |
So over-perˈsuasion.
| 1741 Richardson Pamela II. 158, I drank two Glasses by his Over-persuasion. 1755 N. Magens Insur. II. 242 Made Use of in any over-persuasion, or hazardous Inducements. a 1817 Jane Austen Persuasion (1818) III. vii. 142 It had been the effect of over-persuasion. |