Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To entice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To allure; to entice.
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- verb obsolete To
allure ; toentice .
Etymologies
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Latin allectare, frequentative of allicere, allectum.
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