inveigle, v.
(ɪnˈviːg(ə)l, ɪnˈveɪg(ə)l)
Forms: α. 6 envegel, -vegle, (-veugle), 6–8 enveigle, (6 -veighle, 7 -veygle), 7–8 enveagle. β. 5 invegel, 6–7 -vegle, 6–8 -veagle, (7 inveighle), 6– inveigle.
[In 15–16th c. envegle (rarely enveugle), app. a corruption of an earlier *avegle, aveugle, a. F. aveugler to blind, f. aveugle, OF. also avuegle:—late pop.L. aboculum, f. ab- away from, without + ocul-us eye. The word appears to have been analysed as a-vegle, and this by exchange of prefixes, made en-vegle, as in some other words: cf. enbraid = abraid, enorn = aorn, adorn; cf. esp. L. exemplum, OF. essample, ME. *esaumple, asaumple, corruptly ensample. It is probable that some analogy suggested the prefix en-, whence the Latinized in-. The stem-vowel ē is normal: cf. people = F. peuple, L. populus.]
† 1. trans. To blind in mind or judgement; to beguile, deceive, cajole. Obs.
| α 1522 More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 79/1 Thus enueigleth he them that either be good, or but metely badde. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. vi. 385 They..enveagle and deceive by their subtile orations the integritie of Iudges. 1611 Florio, Ciecare, to blinde, to enueagle. a 1709 Atkyns Parl. & Pol. Tracts (1734) 390 Your rhetorical Flourishes in a Case of Innocent Blood, which contributed in an high Degree to enveagle the Jury, and bring that Noble Lord to the Scaffold. |
| β 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. 668 The sayd duke of Glouceter inuegelyd so the archbysshop of Caunterbury..that he went with hym to the quene. 1552 Latimer 3rd Serm. Lord's Prayer Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 357 He [the devil] intendeth to inveigle even very kings, and to make them negligent in their business and office. 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 87 So it is that loue hath as well inuegled me as others. 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. vii. §7 The subtiltie of Satan inueagling vs, as it did Eue. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vii. 28 The Chymistes, overmagnifying their preparations, inveigle the curiosity of many. |
2. a. To gain over or take captive by deceitful allurement; to entice, allure, seduce.
| α c 1540 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 75 The Pictes..were more envegeled with the desier of fraye then inflamed with the ambition of imperie. 1549 Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 128 Other there be that enuegle mennes daughters..and go about to marrye them wythoute theyr [fathers] consente. 1674 Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 212 She had no Baits or Allurements..to enveagle the minds of Corrupt and Sensual Men. |
| β 1558 Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. xxix. 188 Let not the flattering face of worldlye wealthe inueigle and deceyue you. 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 36 Thinking with the sight of his flockes to inueigle her. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 291 These birds..take a great delight to inveagle others, and to steale away some pigeons from their owne flocks. 1634 Milton Comus 538 Yet have they many baits, and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. 1663 Butler Hud. i. ii. 588 As Indians with a Female Tame Elephant inveigle the Male. 1687 Shadwell Juvenal 49 She stood at the door to inveagle Passengers. 1766 Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. iii. 115 Poltrons..inveigle the affections of virtuous women. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxi, I don't want to inveigle you. 1860 Motley Netherl. (1868) I. ii. 44 An organised system of harlotry, by which the soldiers and politicians of France were inveigled. |
† b. To entrap, ensnare, entangle.
Obs.| 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1567) 80 b, One maie easely be enueigled and brought to an inconuenience, before he be ware. 1647 Sanderson Serm. II. 216 To enveigle and entangle his necessitous neighbour..till he have got a hank over his estate. 1707 Sloane Jamaica I. 235 The branches are inveigled among one another, spreading themselves on every hand. Ibid. II. 196 They [webs of a certain spider] are so strong as to give a man inveigled in them trouble for some time. |
c. With complemental extension: To draw (any one) by guile
into (
to,
from, etc.) action, conduct, a place, etc.;
away,
in;
† to do something.
| 1539 Taverner Gard. Wysed. i. 35 a, He myght be..inuegled by the force & power of frendes to do any thing otherwyse, then the tenour of iustyce & honesty requyred. 1564 Golding Justine (1570) 175 His sonne Comanus..was inuegled ageinst the Massiliens, by one of his Lordes. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 38 Neuer attempting to inueagle or draw away any of their men servants or maids from them. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §7, I never..endeavoured to enveagle any mans belief unto mine. 1663 Wood Life Mar. (O.H.S.) I. 471 Inveighling Dr. Thomas Jones..to be false to his trust. 1663 Cowley Cutter Colman St. 1, Ye shall no more..inveigle into Taverns young Foremen of the Shop. 1682 H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 105 A soul enveigled in vitiousness. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xxiii. 161 The chairmen..were inveigled away to drink somewhere. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. ii. xxvi. §35. 573 Many of them are inveigled to enlist by drink, or by bounty money. 1774 Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772. 139 To enveigle him from his father and friends. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 111 Socrates, who inveigles him into an admission that everything has but one opposite. 1876 Gladstone Glean. (1879) II. 281 The Natives are inveigled on board to look at axes or tobacco. |
d. In good or neutral sense: To beguile.
| a 1720 Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 219 My garden..has nothing in it to inveagle one's thoughts. |
e. colloq. To cajole one out of something.
| 1849 E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 107 He managed to ‘inveigle’ me out of sixpence and a roll of tobacco, before we parted. |
f. To force (something)
upon a person by cajolery, etc.
rare.
| 1788 F. Burney Diary 3 Jan., She had distressed me..by inveigling, rather than forcing upon me, a beautiful..new year's gift. |
Hence
inˈveigled ppl. a. (in
quot. in sense ‘inveigling’),
inˈveigling vbl. n. and ppl. a.| 1572 Forrest Theophilus 318 in Anglia VII, Bllynded by Sathans enveglynge. 1590 Marlowe Edw. II, i. ii. 266 That sly inveigling Frenchman we'll exile. a 1610 Healey Cebes (1636) 153 To passe by them speedily, and stop the earres unto their inveygled perswasions. 1672 Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 57 It looks all so like subterfuge and inveagling. 1692 Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 227 An invegling, self-interessed Widow. |