a. and sb. ? Obs. [f. AS- pref.1 + -suasive, as in persuasive (cf. ASSUADE); but confused in sense with ASSUAGE.]
A. adj. Soothingly persuasive; soothing.
1708. Pope, St. Cecilia, 25. Music her soft assuasive voice applies.
a. 1762. Lady Montague, Poems (1785), 63. There blend your cares with soft assuasive arts There sooth the passions, there unfold your hearts.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XV. 485. Sprinkling with drugs assuasive of his pains.
B. sb. A soothing medicine or application.
1829. [J. L. Knapp], Jrnl. Naturalist, 77. The lenient assuasives of our forefathers seeming unequal to contention with the constitutions of these days.
