| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| inveigle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·vei·gle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-v  g l, -v - |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: in·vei·gled, in·vei·gling, in·vei·gles
1. To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk. See synonyms at lure. 2. To obtain by cajolery: inveigled a free pass to museum. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English envegle, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind, from aveugle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus : Latin ab-, away from; see ab–1 + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops ( exs-, from + ops, eye); see okw- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | in·veigle·ment —NOUN
in·veigler —NOUN
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