beguilt

present singular third person beguilts · participle present beguilting · participle past beguilted · past beguilted

1. transitiveTo make guilty; cause to sin.

   "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! […]"

   1977, Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader

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   Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.

   1791, Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare

2. transitiveTo impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.

   […] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.

   1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library

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   […] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.

   1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris

1. alternativeAlternative form of begilt.