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▪ I. blandish, v.|ˈblændɪʃ|
Forms: 4 blandise, -isshe, -ische, blaundise, -isshe, bloundise, -iss, 4–6 blaundysh, 5 blandysh(e, -yss, -yssh, blaundish, -iss, -yssh, 6 ? blandesh, Sc. blandyis, 5– blandish.
[a. F. blandiss- lengthened stem of blandir:—L. blandīri to flatter, f. blandus smooth, soft: see -ish2. Rare in 17th and 18th c.: Johnson says ‘I have met with this word in no other passage’ than the quotation from Milton (see blandished).]
1. trans. To flatter gently by kind words or affectionate actions, to coax; to act upon with caressing action or complaisant speech; to cajole.
c1305[see blandishing vbl. n.] c1430Lydg. Bochas i. viii. (1544) 15 b, She can them blandishen with her flatery. c1530Proverbs in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 31 Allso repelle that seruavnte that vsith to blaundysh the. 1748Richardson Clarissa II. xi. 68 You must then blandish him over with a confession, that all your past behaviour was maidenly reserve only. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, By this fairest of Orient Light-bringers must our Friend be blandished. 1837― Fr. Rev. II. iii. vii. ii. 353 To blandish down the grimness of Republican austerity.
b. fig. Of things.
1758J. G. Cooper Aristippus i. (R.) In former days a country life..Was blandish'd by perpetual spring.
2. intr. (absol.) To use blandishments; to act or speak with gentle allurement or flattery.
a1340Hampole Psalter i. 1 He spekis of crist & of his folouers, bloundisand til vs. Ibid. xc. 13 The dragoun..that bloundiss with the heuyd and smytes with the tayle. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 302 If he flatere or blandise [v.r. blaundise, blandisshe, blaundisshe, blandische] moore than hym oghte for any necessite. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 220 How shee blandishing, By Dunsmore drives along.
†3. trans. To offer blandly (cf. to smile thanks).
c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Wks. 11 Though they [flowers] sometime blandish soft delight. a1638R. James Wks. (1880) 254 That knew not how to menace speare, Or blandish words that ravish sense.
▪ II. † ˈblandish, n. Obs. rare.
Blandishment.
c1475Found. St. Barthol. i. ix. (1886) 91 When with flaterynge blandysh, a goodwhyle she hadde flateryd. |