0 past simple and past participle of beguile
1 to persuade, attract, or interest someone, sometimes in order to deceive them :
Again and again the telescope had beguiled its untrained users with mirages and deceptions.
Audiences looking for purifying experiences are easily beguiled by symbols of innocence, hence the ubiquitous children's choirs in the works described above.
We should not be so easily beguiled.
The reader is beguiled with descriptions of the joy of flies, shrimps and young fish, the latter being 'so happy that they know not what to do with themselves'.
She was an angel beguiled.
If we are beguiled by any of those definitions, relative poverty will, self-evidently, always be with us.
At present customers are beguiled by the seagulls in the summer sun which they see in television advertisements.
Let us not be beguiled by ideas of a leisured utopia.
