inveigle

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  1. transitive verb To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk. See Synonyms at lure.
  2. transitive verb To obtain by cajolery: inveigled a free pass to museum.

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  • The men themselves subscribed so heartily to this view that it was a law of the Wattsdown Common Room that no attempt was ever to be made by the members to ‘smuggle, inveigle, entice, invite or deploy’ the members of Cartaret into the theatre on Rag Night. —  The Rising of the Moon - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 18: 1945
  • "Induce, inveigle, assuage, complete, qualify Satisfy Whatever," the waif said crossly. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • But at no time did he ever maintain his own opinions with pertinacity: far less to inveigle or entangle any other man's faith; and thus they soon died out, since they were only bare errors and single lapses of his understanding, without a joint depravity of his will. —  Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
  • The life of Cćsar Borgia, which is here given as a paterne to new Princes, we shall find to have been nothing else but a cunning carriage of things so, that he might thereby first deceive and inveigle, and then suppresse all those that could oppose or hinder his ambition. —  Machiavelli, Volume I
  • Certainly either to gratify vanity of the silliest kind, or, which is still more criminal, to decoy and inveigle, and carry on more successfully the business of temptation. —  Cowper
 

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  1. Middle English envegle, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind, from aveugle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus : Latin ab-, away from; see ab-1 + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops : exs-, from + ops, eye); see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also inveagle, enveigle; from Middle English (not found), from Anglo-French enveogler, blind, inveigle, equivalent to F. aveugler = Provencal avogolar = Italian avocolare, blind, from Latin ab, from, + oculus, eye: see ocular.
 

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