inveigle

Meanings

1. To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
2. To obtain through guile or cunning.
3. To fool, to delude, to blind in judgement.
4. To ensnare, to entangle.

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enveugler, alteration of aveugler (“to blind, to delude”), from Old French avogle (“without eyes”), from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”). The in- might be by analogy to variation between a- and en- in other French words, which was then latinised into in-. For the pronunciation with /iː/, compare the development of people; that with /eɪ/ is presumably a spelling pronunciation.