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Definitions for inveigle
ɪnˈveɪ gəl, -ˈvi-in·vei·gle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigleverb

    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

    "He palavered her into going along"

Wiktionary

  1. inveigleverb

    to convert, convince or win over with flattery or wiles

  2. inveigleverb

    to obtain through guile or cunning

  3. Etymology: * Early corruption of aveugler, from aveugle, from the avugle, from ab + oculus. The might be from other / variations found in Middle English, which was then latinised into.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To INVEIGLEverb

    Etymology: invogliare, Ital. Minshew; aveugler, or enaveugler, French, Skinner and

    Most false Duessa, royal richly dight,
    That easy was to inveigle weaker sight,
    Was, by her wicked arts and wily skill,
    Too false and strong for earthly skill or might. Fa. Queen.

    Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him. William Shakespeare.

    Yet have they many baits and guileful spells,
    To inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
    Of them that pass unweeting by the way. John Milton.

    Both right able
    T' inveigle and draw in the rabble. Hudibras.

    Those drops of prettiness, scatteringly sprinkled amongst the creatures, were designed to exalt our conceptions, not inveigle or detain our passions. Boyle.

    I leave the use of garlick to such as are inveigled into the gout by the use of too much drinking. William Temple.

    The inveigling a woman, before she is come to years of discretion, should be as criminal as the seducing of her before she is ten years old. Spectator.

Wikipedia

  1. inveigle

    Persuasion or persuasion arts is an umbrella term for influence. Persuasion can influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviours.Persuasion is studied in many disciplines. Rhetoric studies modes of persuasion in speech and writing and is often taught as a classical subject.: 46  Psychology looks at persuasion through the lens of individual behaviour and neuroscience studies the brain activity associated with this behaviour. History and political science are interested in the role of propaganda in shaping historical events. In business, persuasion is aimed at influencing a person's (or group's) attitude or behaviour towards some event, idea, object, or another person (s) by using written, spoken, or visual methods to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a combination thereof. Persuasion is also often used to pursue personal gain, such as election campaigning, giving a sales pitch, or in trial advocacy. Persuasion can also be interpreted as using personal or positional resources to change people.

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  1. inveigle

    Inveigle refers to persuading someone through deception or flattery to do something. It can also refer to enticing or luring someone into a particular situation, often through manipulation or cunning tactics.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inveigleverb

    to lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle

  2. Etymology: [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. , L. ad. See Ocular.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inveigle

    in-vē′gl, v.t. to entice: to seduce: to wheedle.—ns. Invei′glement, an enticing: an enticement—older forms Invea′gle, Envei′gle; Invei′gler. [Ety. dub.; prob. a corr. of O. Fr. enveogler (Fr. aveugle, blind)—L. ab, without, oculus, the eye.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inveigle in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inveigle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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