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Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory. South. "Genial and suasive satire." Earle. -- Sua"sive*ly, adv.

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.] Music her soft assuasive voice applies. Pope.

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

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. "Persuasive words." Milton.

That which calls aside; a dissuasive.

Dissuasive. [R.]

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.

A dissuasive. [R.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.

Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. Hare.

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.

Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.

Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton.

Not eloquent; not fluent, graceful, or pathetic; not persuasive; as, ineloquent language. Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent. Milton.

Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- some "Lenient of grief." Milton. Of relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic. Arbuthnot. Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. Pope.

An assuasive. [Obs.]

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.] F. Potter.

Persuasive. [Obs.] Bale. -- Per*sua"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*sua"si*bly, adv.

The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness. Is 't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion Shak.