▪ I. beguiling, vbl. n.
(bɪˈgaɪlɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. beguile: deluding, delusion, deception; beguilement.
| c 1400 Test. Love ii. (1560) 283/2 The false disceivable conjectments of mans beguilings. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xv. 54 The perfytte begylynge that Juno had founde soo soone. 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits ix. (1596) 125 Beguilings (saith Plato) neuer befall in things vnlike and very different. 1625 Modell of Wit 68 To preserue you from any such beguiling. |
▪ II. beˈguiling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That beguiles; deluding; charming, wiling away.
| 1593 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 24 Such time-beguiling sport. 1646 Crashaw Steps to Temple 63 Some smiling But beguiling Spheres of sweet and sugar'd lies. 1814 Wordsw. White Doe iv. 106 The sense Of that beguiling influence. |