inveigle
verb

- persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery

- influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

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WORD ORIGIN

“Inveigle” (formerly also "enveigle"), stems from the late 15th century, from Anglo-Norman French envegler, an alteration of the Old French aveugler "to blind".

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THE MINISTER WHO LOST HIS HEAD

The Catholic minister of Theodoric the Great, hoping to inveigle his way into the king’s favour, one day declared that he was renouncing his Catholicism to embrace the king’s Arian faith.

Theodoric was not impressed: “If this man is not faithful to his God”, he asked, “how can he be faithful to me, a mere man?”

Theodoric had the minister beheaded!

Note: Theodoric The Great (454-526 CE) king of the Ostrogoths (from 471), invaded Italy in 488 and completed the conquest of virtually the entire peninsula and Sicily by 493, making himself king of Italy (493–526) and establishing his capital at Ravenna.

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SYNONYMS

- to persuade (someone) to do something by means of temptation or persuasion

allure, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole (into), captivate, coax, coerce, dangle a carrot in front of, ensnare, entangle, entice, entrap, entreat, fast-talk, finagle, flatter, ingratiate, INVEIGLE, jolly, lure, manoeuvre, mousetrap, nudge, seduce, smooth-talk, soft-soap, steer, sucker, sweet-talk, sweeten up, tempt, wheedle (into), whet the appetite of, wile, woo

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