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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of entice

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entice +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • The Law of Moses concerning him that enticeth to idolatry, that is to say, in the kingdom of God to a renouncing of his allegiance, forbids to conceal him, and commands the accuser to cause him to be put to death, and to cast the first stone at him; 448 but not to kill him before he be condemned.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For it is not the eye of itself that enticeth to lust, but an adulterous eye, as Peter terms it,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Yet none can deny but that the food itself is a partial cause; for not only new fruit, bread, or corn, but flesh of the same year, is better tasted than that of the former, more forcibly provokes the guests, and enticeth them to eat on.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • But you urge farther, that variety enticeth the appetite that hath no command over itself.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Yet none can deny but that the food itself is a partial cause; for not only new fruit, bread, or corn, but flesh of the same year, is better tasted than that of the former, more forcibly provokes the guests, and enticeth them to eat on.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • But you urge farther, that variety enticeth the appetite that hath no command over itself.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • See just how it enticeth them to it, the many – too – many!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

    Proverbs 16. 1999

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