dangle after

verb

dangle after

verb

1

Dated To hang upon importunately; to court the favour of; to beset.

the presbyterians, and their clans of other fanaticks, or freethinkers and atheists that dangle after them, are as well inclined to pull down the present establishment of monarchy and religion1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction:

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