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Definition

to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive — especially through charm

beguiling = enchanting; or enchanting and deceptive

beguile = entertain (or make time pass pleasantly)

beguiled = tricked

Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow...
William Shakespeare -- Titus Andronicus
For gifts beguile men's minds and their deeds as well.
Homer -- Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
PROCTOR: Beguile me not!
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

beguile = deceive

Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

beguiled = was entertained for

How shall we beguile The lazy time, if not with some delight?
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

beguile = to charm someone; or to deceive — especially through charm

So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

beguile = charm and/or deceive

beguile = deceive

I thought for an instant of the bitter beguiling taste of the cigarettes.
David Almond -- Clay

beguiling = enchanting or deceptive

beguiled = deceived

DANFORTH: Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

beguile = deceive

I must beguile her gently and pleasantly along till I've won her confidence, and then she will be ready for anything.
Alcott, Louisa May -- Eight Cousins
I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
William Shakespeare
"Mentor," he cried, "do not let Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors."
Homer -- The Odyssey
Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
Shakespeare, William -- Twelfth Night; or What You Will
I know the Sheriff has devised it to beguile us archers into some treachery.
McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
But there was no harm in his way of saying this: it was said laughingly, and to beguile the time.
Dickens, Charles -- A Tale Of Two Cities
And though she did beguile the time and keep me from my bed, you must not be so tenderly careful of me as to be out of humour with her.
Dickens, Charles -- The Old Curiosity Shop

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