different between incite vs inveigle

English

Etymology

Middle French inciter, from Latin incitare (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citare (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of ciere (“to rouse, excite, call”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n.s?t', IPA^(key): /?n?sa?t/

Verb

incite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)

1. (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

   The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.

Related terms

• incitement
• inciteful
• incitive

Translations

Further reading

• incite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• incite at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• intice

French

Verb

incite

1. first-person singular present indicative of inciter
2. third-person singular present indicative of inciter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of inciter
4. second-person singular imperative of inciter

Portuguese

Verb

incite

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of incitar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of incitar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of incitar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of incitar

Spanish

Verb

incite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of incitar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of incitar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of incitar.

English

Etymology

Early corruption of French aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from aveugle (“blind”), from the Old French avugle (“without eyes”), from Late Latin ab ocul?s (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”). The in- might be from other a-/en- variations found in Middle English, which was then latinised into in-.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?n?ve?.??l/, /?n?vi?.??l/
• ,
• Rhymes: -e???l, -i???l

Verb

inveigle (third-person singular simple present inveigles, present participle inveigling, simple past and past participle inveigled)

1. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

   Synonyms: entice, induce, put someone up to something

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:

     She described with the most vivid minuteness the agonies of the country families whom he had ruined—the sons whom he had plunged into dishonour and poverty—the daughters whom he had inveigled into perdition.

2. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

   He inveigled an introduction to her.

Usage notes

• Sometimes confused with inveigh.

Translations

Further reading

• “inveigle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.