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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INVE'IGLE, v.t. To entice; to seduce; to wheedle; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery.
Yet have they many baits and guileful spells
To inveigle and invite th' unwary sense--

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet- talk, inveigle]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (inveigled; 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 <inveigled her way into a promotion> Synonyms: see lure • inveiglement noun • inveigler noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inveigle In*vei"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inveigled; p. pr. & vb. n. Inveigling.] [Prob. fr. F. aveugler to blind, to delude, OF. aveugler, avugler, avegler, fr. F. aveugle blind, OF. aveugle, avugle, properly, without eyes, fr. L. ab + oculus eye. The pref. in- seems to have been substituted for a- taken as the pref. F. [`a], L. ad. See Ocular.] To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Entice, decoy, beguile, entrap, ensnare, lure.

Moby Thesaurus

allure, bait, bait the hook, birdlime, blandish, cajole, catch, catch out, coax, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entice, entoil, entrap, enweb, flirt, flirt with, gin, give the come-on, hook, hook in, lead on, lime, lure, mesh, net, noose, offer bait to, rope in, seduce, snare, snarl, sniggle, spread the toils, suck in, tangle, tempt, toll, trap, trip, wind, woo