different between inspirit vs persuade

English

Etymology

From Middle English inspiriten, equivalent to in- +? spirit.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: in?spi?rit

Verb

inspirit (third-person singular simple present inspirits, present participle inspiriting, simple past and past participle inspirited)

1. To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour.
   • c. 1615, Josuah Sylvester (translator), “The Tropheis of the Vertues and Fortune of Henrie the Great” by Pierre Matthieu in Works of Du Bartas^[1], London, c. 1641, page 548:

     Ah! must wee live, and see so sudden dead

     The Life that late our lives inspirited?

   • 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer^[2], London: Bernard Lintot, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 30, page 129:

     And nothing could be better imagin’d than the reason, why the wounded Princes left their Tents; they were impatient to behold the Battel, anxious for its Success, and desirous to inspirit the Soldiers by their Presence.

   • 1856, John Esten Cooke, chapter LXI, in The Last of the Foresters^[3]:

     The landlord had been so much pleased with Mr. Jinks’ patriotic ardor in the German cause, that he generously hinted at an entire obliteration of any little score chalked up against the name of Jinks for board and lodging at the hostelry; this was one of the circumstances which inspirited Mr. Jinks.

   • 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf’s Long Howl ^[4]:

     The queer thought somehow inspirited him.

   • 2003, Robert Brustein, “Three Years after ‘1984’”, in Reimagining American Theatre^[5], part II, New York: Hill & Wang:

     The "festival" […] this year has concerned itself largely with opera and dance, most of its pieces (perhaps in order to inspirit our AIDS-demoralized sexuality) inspired by the Don Juan motif.

2. To fill or imbue with spirit.
   • 1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, 1732, pages 369–370:

     […] the Assurance we have of the Existence of Beings above our Sense, and of Thee, (the great Exemplar of thy Works) comes from Thee, the All-True, and Perfect, who hast thus communicated thy-self more immediately to us, so as in some manner to inhabit within our Souls; Thou who art Original Soul, diffusive, vital in all, inspiriting the Whole.

   • 2002, Nel Noddings, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, part 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124:

     Human beings, even fully mature adults, are neither detached rationalities nor mere collections of responses to environmental stimuli. They are inspirited, thinking bodies, and it is their bodies that launch the development of selves through a multitude of complex encounters.

Synonyms

• (to hearten): invigorate
• (to imbue with spirit): ensoul

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• perswade (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin persu?de? (“I persuade”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??swe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Hyphenation: per?suade

Verb

persuade (third-person singular simple present persuades, present participle persuading, simple past and past participle 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

   • 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.
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.]
3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?ad/

Verb

persuade

1. inflection of persuader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

persuade

1. third-person singular indicative present of persuadere

Latin

Verb

persu?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of persu?de?

Portuguese

Verb

persuade

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of persuadir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of persuadir

Spanish

Verb

persuade

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of persuadir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of persuadir.