inveagle

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A form of inveigle — To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbinveagle (third-person singular simple present inveagles, present participle inveagling, simple past and past participle inveagled)

present singular third person inveagles · participle present inveagling · participle past inveagled · past inveagled

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of inveigle.

    But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.

    1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58

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Chicago

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