beguilt
verbEtymology From Middle English begilten, equivalent to be- + guilt.
1
To make guilty; cause to sin.
- 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.1791, Samuel Ayscough, An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare:
- "Why mangelest thou a wretched man? O spare me in my tomb! Spare to beguilt thy righteous hand, Æneas! […]"1977, Basil Davenport, The portable Roman reader:
2
To impute with guilt or fault; blame; accuse.
- […] for they deemed that he was long-grudging, even in lesser matters than those wherein Kalf had done to beguilt him with the king.1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:
- […] 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.1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris: