Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - inveigle
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Inveigle
inveigle
transitive verb (~d; inveigling) Etymology: Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis, literally, lacking eyes Date: 1539 1. to win over by wiles ; entice 2. to acquire by ingenuity or flattery ; wangle ~d her way into a promotion Synonyms: see lure • ~ment noun • ~r noun
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1.
v.tr. (foll. by into, or to + infin.) entice; persuade by guile. Derivatives inveiglement n. Etymology: earlier enve(u)gle f. AF envegler, OF aveugler to blind f. aveugle blind prob. f. Rmc ab oculis (unrecorded) without eyes ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
v. заманивать, завлекать; соблазнять to inveigle smb. into doing smth. - обманом побудить кого-л. сделать что-л. ...Англо-русский словарь
3.
(inveigles, inveigling, inveigled) If you inveigle someone into doing something, you cleverly persuade them to do it when they do not really want to. (FORMAL) She inveigles Paco into a plot to swindle Tania out of her savings. = cajole VERB: V n into n/-ing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
4.
~ v inveigle sb into sth phr v formal to persuade someone to do what you want, especially in a dishonest way (She had inveigled me into taking messages to her lover.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 1494, from M.Fr. aveugler "delude, make blind," from V.L. *aboculus "without sight, blind," from L. ab- "without" + oculus "eye." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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