All 9 Uses
beguile
in
Le Morte D'Arthur
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- That me repenteth, said Launcelot, of your hurt, but I was adread of treason, for I was late beguiled, and therefore come on your way into your pavilion and take your rest, and as I suppose I shall staunch your blood.†
Book 6beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Now by my faith I know well that he will grieve some of the court of King Arthur; for on him knights will be bold, and deem that it is I, and that will beguile them.†
Book 6 *
- O boy, said Sir Gareth, thou hast beguiled me foul this day that thou kept my ring; give it me anon again, that I may hide my body withal; and so he took it him.†
Book 7beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Then they all looked upon Sir Launcelot and said: Ye have beguiled us with your covered shield.†
Book 10
- Well, said King Mark, yet shall he be beguiled.†
Book 10
- All these words said Palomides for to beguile Sir Tristram.†
Book 10
- Now, said Sir Gawaine, we have been served this day of what meats and drinks we thought on; but one thing beguiled us, we might not see the Holy Grail, it was so preciously covered.†
Book 13beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- And by the white bird might men understand the fiend, and I shall tell you how the swan is white without-forth, and black within: it is hypocrisy which is without yellow or pale, and seemeth without-forth the servants of Jesu Christ, but they be within so horrible of filth and sin, and beguile the world evil.†
Book 16
- Then when Sir Mordred wist and understood how he was beguiled, he was passing wroth out of measure.†
Book 21beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
Definitions:
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(1)
(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in classic literature, beguile can mean to "pass time pleasantly."