beguilt
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English begilten, equivalent to be- + guilt.
Verb
[edit]beguilt (third-person singular simple present beguilts, present participle beguilting, simple past and past participle beguilted)
- (transitive) To make guilty; cause to sin.
- 1791, Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare:
- Why should I fear, I know not; since guiltiness I know not. I will not reason what is meant hereby, because I will beguilt less of the meaning.
- 1977, Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader:
- "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! […] "
- (transitive) To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
- 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:
- […] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.
- 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:
- […] and albeit Einar were old, yet he threw himself into this case, and beguilted the sons of Thorgrim to the full at the Thorsness-thing.
Etymology 2
[edit]From begild.
Verb
[edit]beguilt
- Alternative form of begilt