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Definition of Beguiled
1. Adjective. Filled with wonder and delight.
Definition of Beguiled
1. Verb. (past of beguile) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beguiled
1. beguile [v] - See also: beguile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beguiled
Literary usage of Beguiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"THROUGH the misty evening-shadows, that float nightly o'er the valley, 'Neath
the old and ruined abbey, we two wandered, love-beguiled. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Nay, he hath beguiled me once ; I read him through and through ; 'tis waste of
breath. " Rather, Odysseus, let him take sage thought, With thee and his ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"It seemed that the repentant Seer 840 Her sleep of many a hundred year With gentle
dreams beguiled. The Garland and the Dame: But where should warrior seek ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1857)
"IN WHICH THE READER IS beguiled INTO A DELECTABLE WALK, WHICH ENDS VERY DIFFERENTLY
FROM WHAT IT COMMENCED. f_ N the year of our Lord one thousand eight ..."
5. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"He finds that Love has beguiled him, but will trust in his Lady. OFTEN the day
had a most joyful morn That bringeth grief at last Unto the human heart which ..."
6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"... beguiled THE KING. [The Doctrine of la/i, or of Man's Redemption. 1658.]
A Prosopopeia on Solomon's fall, by the Temptations of his idolatrous wives to ..."
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