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The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. Fairfax.

ig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.

To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement. Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much. Addison.

fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make Bunyan. Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. Shak.

The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South.

Allurement; enticement. [R.] She gives the leer of invitation. Shak.

Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton.

o, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.

The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

The act of enticing by soft words; enticement. [Obs.]

Enticement. [Obs.]

That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.