Meaning

(transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
2. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To fool, to delude, to blind in judgement.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To ensnare, to entangle.

Example Sentences

And he that could with giftes and promiſes, / Inueigle him that lead a thouſand horſe, / And make him falſe his faith vnto his King, / Will quickly win ſuch as be like himſelfe.

And therefore hereto he inveigleth, not only the Sadduces and ſuch as retaine unto the Church of God, but is alſo content that Epicurus Democritus or any of the heathen ſhould hold the ſame.

But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.

Say he's been misguided by the rebels, and how they've inveigled him, till he's turned rebel himself; and how he's now out with Marion's men, in Major Singleton's squad.

She described with the most vivid minuteness the agonies of the country families whom he had ruined—the sons whom he had plunged into dishonour and poverty—the daughters whom he had inveigled into perdition.

He inveigled an introduction to my sister from me.

As Louisa had no desire to receive the attentions of the Prince, and Lady Penrhyn was well-practised in the art of inveigling, she would have soon carried her point, if she had not met with one who disputed the prize almost as adroitly as herself;...

Word Forms

• inveigles
• inveigling
• inveigled
• enveigle
• inveagle

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