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2741 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERSUASION.4 (Noah Webster)
2. The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction proceeding from arguments and reasons offered by others, or suggested by one’s own reflections.
2742 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERTINENT.1 (Noah Webster)
… an argument not pertinent to his subject or design. The discourse abounds with pertinent remarks. He gave pertinent answers to the questions.
2743 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHILOSOPHIC.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Suitable to philosophy; according to philosophy; as philosophical reasoning or arguments.
2744 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHILOSOPHISM.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The love of fallacious arguments or false reasoning.
2745 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHILOSOPHY.7 (Noah Webster)
3. Reasoning; argumentation.
2746 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PINCH.7 (Noah Webster)
6. To press; to straiten by difficulties; as, the argument pinches the objector.
2747 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLAIN.13 (Noah Webster)
8. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument.
2748 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLAUSIBLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. That may be applauded; that may gain favor or approbation; hence, superficially pleasing; apparently right; specious; popular; as a plausible argument; a plausible pretext; a plausible doctrine.
2749 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLAUSIBLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Using specious arguments or discourse; as a plausible man.
2750 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEAD.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To urge reasons for or against; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead in his favor; to plead with a judge or with a father.
2751 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEAD.9 (Noah Webster)
PLEAD, v.t. To discuss, defend and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons offered to the tribunal or person who has the power of determining; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury. In this sense, argue is more generally used by lawyers.
2752 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEADER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One that offers reasons for or against; one that attempts to maintain by arguments.
2753 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEADING.1 (Noah Webster)
PLEADING, ppr. Offering in defense; supporting by arguments or reasons; supplicating.
2754 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEADING.2 (Noah Webster)
PLEADING, n. The art of supporting by arguments, or of reasoning to persuade.
2755 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLIABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to moral influence, arguments, persuasion or discipline; as a pliable youth.
2756 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POINT.30 (Noah Webster)
These arguments are not sufficient to prove the point.
2757 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POINT.42 (Noah Webster)
The point, the subject; the main question; the precise thing to be considered, determined or accomplished. This argument may be true, but it is not to the point.
2758 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POISE.17 (Noah Webster)
He cannot consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence of the clearest argumentations, where they would conclude against his desires.
2759 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POTENT.3 (Noah Webster)
1. Powerful, in a moral sense; having great influence; as potent interest; a potent argument.
2760 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POWER.13 (Noah Webster)
10. Influence; that which may move the mind; as the power of arguments or of persuasion.