The definition of inveigle is to convince someone to do something by coaxing or through the use of flattery.
(verb)When you con an invitation to a party out of someone by going on and on about what a good hostess she is, this is an example of a situation where you inveigle an invitation.
See inveigle in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb inveigled, inveigling
Origin: LME invegelen, altered (after in-) < MFr aveugler, to blind, delude < aveugle, blind < LL *aboculus, blind < L ab, from + oculus, an eye
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See inveigle in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb in·vei·gled, in·vei·gling, in·vei·gles
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Origin: Middle English envegle
Origin: , alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind
Origin: , from aveugle, blind
Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *aboculus
Origin: : Latin ab-, away from; see ab-1
Origin: + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops : exs-, from + ops, eye); see okw- in Indo-European roots
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