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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUASIVE

a.[L.] Having power to persuade.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUASIVE

SUASIVE Sua "sive, a.

 

Defn: Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory. South. "Genial and suasive satire. " Earle. -- Sua "sive *ly, adv.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

suasive

sua sive |ˈswāsiv ˈsweɪsɪv | ▶adjective serving to persuade. • Grammar denoting a class of English verbs, for example, insist, whose meaning includes the notion of persuading and that take a subordinate clause whose verb may either be in the subjunctive or take a modal.

 

Oxford Dictionary

suasive

suasive |ˈsweɪsɪv | ▶adjective formal serving to persuade. • Grammar denoting a class of English verbs, for example insist, whose meaning includes the notion of persuading and which take a subordinate clause whose verb may either be in the subjunctive or take a modal.