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Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. "Keep thyself pure." 1 Tim. v. 22. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience. 1 Tim. i. 5.

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." Milton. When he of wine was replet at his feast. Chaucer. In heads repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.

of change of opinion; recantation. Other men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.

An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless. Sir W. Scott.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.

me. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.

Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10.

Guile; trickery. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. Milton.

Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] "Unnooked simplicity." Marston.

The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft; artfulness. [R.] He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all. Carlyle.

trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.…

The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.

stormy; wintery. Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile. Keble.