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Definition of Entices
1. entice [v] - See also: entice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entices
Literary usage of Entices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Buttoner (card-sharpers), a confederate who entices " pigeons " into playing.
Button on (printers), see PAS ON and CHOPPER ON. An expression frequently used ..."
2. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"The conversation of the wicked is a fountain of mischief. Cingalese. 13.
The majority are wicked. Greek. -, 14. The success of the wicked entices many more. ..."
3. The Codes and Statutes of the State of California by California, Theodore Henry Hittell (1876)
"V, ' entices away any child under the age of twelve years, with intent to detain
and conceal such child from its parent, guardian, or other person having ..."
4. Goethe's Correspondence with a Child by Bettina von Arnim (1839)
"... led rnc such strange ways, and gave me but gentle hints; what was it else but
involuntary following the spirit, who enticed me, as light entices life. ..."
5. Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism ;": Delivered in the by George Bush, William Benjamin Hayden, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Richard Kenner Crallé, Catherine Crowe, Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, John Clowes, Massachusetts New-Church Union, Swedenborg Foundation (1847)
"... enticing him into her bed-chamber, and inflaming his passions,' or when a man
entices another man's wife, and inflames her passions. ..."
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