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▪ I. beguile, v.|bɪˈgaɪl|
Forms: 3–4 bigile(n, 4 bygille, 4–5 bigyle, bygile, 4–6 begile, 4–7 begyle, 5 bygyle, -ile, 4– beguile.
[f. be- 2 + guile v., cognate with wile. The development of senses 3, 4, 5, is analogous to that of amuse, q.v.]
1. trans. To entangle or over-reach with guile; to delude, deceive, cheat.
a1225Ancr. R. 270 Non so wis ne so war..þet nis bigiled oðer hwules. a1300Cursor M. 716 And thoght hou he mith man bigile [v.r. bi-will]. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 832 Lo thus byiaped and bigiled [v.r. bygiled, begiled, bygyled] was he. c1450Merlin 9 The feende myght neuer be-gyle her. 1552Latimer Serm. Lincoln ii. 73 Esau wept when Jacob begyled him. 1653Walton Angler 170 That you may..beguile this crafty fish. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 20 The foolish Lights which Travailers beguile. 1821J. Baillie Met. Leg., Lady G. B. ii, Are not my eyes beguiled? 1858Longfellow M. Standish viii. 81 Into an ambush beguiled, cut off with the whole of his forces.
b. absol.
c1305St. James 39 in E.E.P. 59 Leue to bigyli & bitraye also In eche quyntise þat mai. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxviii. 22 And now wileth not bigilen [1388 nyle ȝe scorne; Coverd., make no mockes]. ― Job xl. 24 Whether thou shalt begile to hym as to a bird. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. liv. 242 For it a Nature was in Stukelie to begile.
2. To deprive of by fraud, to cheat out of.
a1300Cursor M. 8632 Qui has þu me bigiled [Cott. bisuiken] sua Of mi child þat mi-selue bar? 1394P. Pl. Crede 51 Wymmen..begileth hem of her good wiþ glauerynge wordes. 1593Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. i. §12 Wks. 1841 I. 285 Infants are beguiled of their right. 1611Bible Col. ii. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xxxiv. (1803) 62 ‘I fear..sleep has beguiled me of my time.’ 1826Scott Woodst. xxxviii, Time is beguiling man of his strength.
†3. To cheat (hopes, expectations, aims, or a person in them); to disappoint, to foil. Obs.
1483Caxton Cato C vi, He is begyled for he findeth nothyng. 1576Baker Gesner's Jewell Health 201 a, This drinck rightly ministred never fayleth nor beguyleth the Phisition. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 37 Thou hast beguil'd my hopes. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 25 The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguil'd. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I, (1792) I. 165 (Jam.) Still looking for the coming of his soldiers, but he was beguiled.
4. To win the attention or interest of (any one) by wiling means; to charm, divert, amuse; to wile (one) on, or into any course.
[a1225Ancr. R. 330 Edmodnesse eadiliche bigileð ure Louerd..& biȝit of his gode.] 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1404 It beguil'd attention, charm'd the sight. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. vii. 177 Fertile in devices for beguiling mankind into virtue. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 198 The charms of this stream will beguile the tourist and diminish the toil of the ascent.
5. To divert attention in some pleasant way from (anything painful, or irksome); to elude the disagreeable sensation of, and so to cause to pass insensibly or pleasantly; to charm away, wile away.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. i. 35 Take choyse of all my Library, And so beguile thy sorrow. 1601― Twel. N. iii. iii. 41, I will bespeake our dyet, Whiles you beguile the time. 1718Pope Iliad ii. 788 Pleasing conference beguiles the day. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 152 By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd. 1802Southey Thalaba iv, With various talk beguiling the long way. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 177 Took a book to beguile the tedious hours.
▪ II. beguile, n. Sc.|bɪˈgaɪl|
[f. prec.]
Deception.
1637Rutherford Lett. 176 (1862) I. 417, I will die in that sweet beguile. a1709W. Guthrie Serm. 20 (Jam.) Yond man has given himself a great beguile. 1768Ross Helenore 70 (Jam.), I gets the beguile. Nae thing I finds. |