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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To lead astray by making blind to the truth or to consequences; mislead by deception; entice into violation of duty, propriety, or self-interest: now usually with into.
  2. Synonyms To cajole, beguile, lure, insnare, decoy.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to convert, convince or win over with flattery or wiles
  2. v. transitive to obtain through guile or cunning

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Etymologies

  1. Middle English envegle, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind, from aveugle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus : Latin ab-, away from; + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops : exs-, from + ops, eye). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • blafferty This word sounds like someone trying to wiggle their way into your pocket. Apr 23, 2011

  • victoriapl "Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate."
    X-files episode "Teliko" Dec 2, 2007

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