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Definition of Enveigled
1. enveigle [v] - See also: enveigle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enveigled
Literary usage of Enveigled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1841)
"... and by expressions of unlimited confidence, enveigled Custine to Paris—where
he arrived about the 18th July, and gave his adversaries much uneasiness ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"Run after in society, as he had been, in a manner totally unprecedented during
his very first season—had his affections been enveigled ? ..."
3. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"The governors in general have demonstrated that truth is not in them; they have
enveigled negroes from, and have armed them against, their masters; ..."
4. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"... thoughts for the rest of the evening, of returning to our caique, and contribute
to the hilarity of those by whom we had been thus hospitably enveigled. ..."
5. Collected Papers on Acoustics by Wallace Clement Sabine (1922)
"... the recent developments of physics, an audience was enveigled into attending,
and at the end of the lecture requested to remain for the experiment. ..."
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