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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·suade v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissuading.]
 1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent]
    Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter.   --Goldsmith.
 War, therefore, open or concealed, alike
 My voice dissuades.   --Milton.
 2. To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
    I have tried what is possible to dissuade him.   --Mad. D' Arblay.
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