Pronounced: STIP-tik, adj
Notes: I have run across this word, but wasn’t sure of the definition
Yesterday’s word
The word inveigle means “to get something or to persuade someone to do something by deception or flattery”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I thought that our word meant to persuade someone to do something, but I didn’t know that inveigle meant that the persuasion was by deception or flattery. Our word came from the Old French word aveugle (blind), which came from the Latin words ab- (away from) and oculus (eye) — thus, “out of sight”.
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