Read full poem →Glow more bright when summer leaves them glowing,
Laugh more light when suns and winds entice.
Dictionary Entry
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
In a Sentence
“I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
people entice
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Poetry examples for “entice”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Within which bounds she balm encloses
Apt to entice a deity:
Heigh ho, would she were mine!
Read full poem →Thou in the chamber's secrecy,
Didst with thy artful words entice
Samson to give his heart to thee,
Read full poem →Thus will it be when man permits a vice
First to invade his heart, and then entice;
When wishes vain and undefined arise,
Read full poem →The wildest fashion, or the worst excess;
To be the gray seducer, and entice
Unbearded folly into acts of vice:
Read full poem →With one reflecting, self-reproving sigh;
Reasoning, how habit will the mind entice
To approach and gaze upon the bounds of vice,
Read full poem →And in such ways your pity show to vice,
That you the rogues encourage, and entice.”
For lenient measures James had no regard— 160
Read full poem →Still he groaned, answering no syllable. And she continued, ''Tis surely
in sweet friendliness I ask. Art thou not a fair youth, one to entice a
damsel to perfect friendliness?'
Read full poem →decided to make a change of diet, then a gold ribbed hare's ear may,
if fished wet, entice an odd fish, as it somewhat resembles a nympha.
Read full poem →Onward he jolls, nor can the minstrel-throngs
Entice him once to listen to their songs;
Nor marks he once a blossom on his way;