What does Blandish mean?
Definitions for Blandish
ˈblæn dɪʃblan·dish
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Princeton's WordNet
flatter, blandishverb
praise somewhat dishonestly
Wiktionary
blandishverb
To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
blandishverb
To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.
Etymology: From blandishen, from blandir, from blanditia
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Blandishverb
To smooth; to soften. I have met with this word in no other passage.
Etymology: blandior, Lat.
Must’ring all her wiles,
With blandish’d parleys, feminine assaults,
Tongue-batteries, she surceas’d not day nor night,
To storm me over-watch’d, and weary’d out. John Milton, Agonistes, l. 402.
Wikipedia
blandish
The Time Hunter series of books is published by Telos Publishing Ltd. and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. Each novella is issued in a standard format paperback format, and a deluxe hardback edition signed by the novella's author.
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blandish
To blandish is to coax someone through flattery or kind words. It is an act of persuading or influencing someone by using gentle, flattering, or pleasing statements or actions.
Webster Dictionary
Blandishverb
to flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole
Blandishverb
to make agreeable and enticing
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Blandish
bland′ish, v.t. to flatter and coax, to cajole.—n. Bland′ishment, act of expressing fondness: flattery: winning expressions or actions. [Fr. blandir, blandiss-, from L. blandīri.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Blandish in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Blandish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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