Bible Dictionaries
Dissuade

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).

(2):

(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; - with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dissuade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dissuade.html. 1828.