Both Uses
beguile
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: E.P. Coleridge)
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- for then would my own mistress Medea never have sailed to the turrets of Iolcos, her soul with love for Jason smitten, nor would she have beguiled the daughters of Pelias to slay their father and come to live here in the land of Corinth with her husband and children, where her exile found favour with the citizens to whose land she had come, and in all things of her own accord was she at one with Jason, the greatest safeguard this when wife and husband do agree;†
beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Next I caused the death of Pelias by a doom most grievous, even by his own children's hand, beguiling them of all their fear.†
*beguiling = charming or enchanting; or deceiving through charm
Definitions:
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(1)
(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in classic literature, beguile can mean to "pass time pleasantly."