Enveigle

En`vei´gle


v. t.1.To entice. See Inveigle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
That between Pyramus and Thisbe is an innocent love between two naive and inexperienced young people, and it moves the reader to compassion; that between the jealous man's wife and the young man she hopes to enveigle is more an example of eros, and comes from a desire to trick the husband, in an extremely astute way --an astuteness, moreover, that derives from reading or from generally diffused tales.
Decameron 7: under the sign of Venus
They enable unrepresentative apparatchicks to enveigle themselves into the central control of the RFU without election by the membership or accountability to the membership.
Reform aimed at reining in the 'unaccountables'
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