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dissuadere

dissuadēre [CL] , to advise against, discourage. ne ‥ utilia persuadenti vulgus acquiescat, incommodis quibusque propositis ~endo insistunt Ælnoth Cnut 41; antistes ‥ in quantum potuit truculentam recalcitrationem dissuasit Ord. Vit. VIII 11; desuadent tamen indigine certaminis ausum H. Avr. Guthl. f. 66. 18; nulli imponitur ut locum [sc. purgatorium S. Patricii] intret, sed potius in principio ~etur ingressus. quod si omnino intrare voluerit, accedit primo ad episcopum loci, qui pro ingressu ~et Meaux I 139 (cf. M. Par. Maj. II 194); Ockham Pol. II 809 (v. dissuasibilis).

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