persuader

From persuade +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsweɪdə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsweɪdɚ/

persuader (plural persuaders)

1. One who, or that which, persuades.
   • 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen‎^[1], Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:

     […] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.

2. (printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.
   • 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts:

     Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

3. (television) An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
   • 1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:

     These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.

4. (slang) A spur (for riding a horse).
   • The Sportsman (volume 5, page 30)

     He had very long legs, which he carried far back, and made most liberal use of his persuaders, so that what with his weight, and what with his style of riding, his horses were far from enjoying a sinecure.

   • 1845, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 12, page 646:

     The Squire laboured under a similar difficulty, and his persuaders were as busily at play as Jacob's. When, however, the horses had caught their second wind, they mended the places of their riders, and carried them closer to the flying chase.

• predauers

Inherited from Middle French persuader, from Latin persuādeō (“to persuade”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɥa.de/
• Homophones: persuadai, persuadé, persuadée, persuadées, persuadés, persuadez

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persuader

1. to persuade

• persuadé
• persuasif
• persuasion

• “persuader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dépureras

From Latin persuādeō (“I persuade”).

persuader

1. to persuade

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• persuasion

• French: persuader