persuadeとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin persuādeō (“I persuade”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pəˈsweɪd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsweɪd/
• 韻: -eɪd
• ハイフネーション: per‧suade

動詞

persuade (三人称単数 現在形 persuades, 現在分詞 persuading, 過去形および過去分詞形 persuaded)

1. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: convince

   Antonyms: deter, dissuade

   That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.

   • 1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus; Socrates Scholasticus; Evagrius Scholasticus; Dorotheus; Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. [...], book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, OCLC 55193813, page 225:

     [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.

   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     We will persuade him, be it possible.

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620:

     The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:

     The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 6:9:

     But beloued, wee are perswaded better things of you, and things that accompany saluation, though we thus speake.

3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Kings 18:32:

     […] and hearken not vnto Hezekiah, when hee perswadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliuer vs.

   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009 edition, page 119:

     She did not go into the coffee-room, though repeatedly persuaded by Miss Woodley, but waited at the door till her carriage drew up.

   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:

     He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.

派生語

Further reading

• “persuade” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.