Lewis Short
suāsĭo (noun F) : suadeo
* A counselling, advice, exhortation, suasion, persuasion.
* In gen., Sen. Ep. 95, 65.—Plur.: omni suasionum admonitionumque genere utens,Gell. 10, 19, 4.
* In partic.
* In publicists' lang., a recommending, advocacy of a proposed law: suasio legis Serviliae,Cic. Clu. 51, 140.
* In rhetoric, the suasory species of eloquence, Cic. Or. 11, 37: praecepta dare de suasionibus,id. de Or. 2, 81, 333.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary