1. To advise or exhort against; to attempt to draw or divert from a measure, by reason or offering motives to; as, the minister dissuaded the prince from adopting the measure; he dissuaded him from his purpose.
2. To represent as unfit, improper or dangerous.
3. War therefore, open or concealed, alike my voice dissuades.
4. This phraseology is probably elliptical, and merely poetical; from being understood.