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ower of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Shak.

To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.] The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward. "Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]

f rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his…

To dissuade. [Obs.] Spenser.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dissuaded her from such a disparage. Spenser.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.

Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. -- n.

To dissuade from by previous warning. [Obs.]

To teach or persuade. [Obs.] Bacon.

To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.

-- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.…

Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.