alluredadj.
/əˈl(j)ʊəd/, U.S. /əˈlʊ(ə)rd/, /æˈlʊ(ə)rd/ Attracted, tempted; charmed, beguiled.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] > attracted, allured, or enticed
temptedc1340
allured1538
trained1579
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Allectus, allured.
1605 W. Warner in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 212 With voyces tragicall sounds Melpomen And as with chaines th'allured eares she binds.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 47 Not so allur'd to feed. View more context for this quotation
1669 Songs Alamode in New Acad. Complements 113 While inchanting Syrens sing, Th' allured Mariner is wrack't.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 49 Ravenous Dogs, allur'd by scented Blood.
1814 E. Thurlow Passage in ‘Angelica’ in Moonlight 311 Whose looks have trapt The wary Tritons, and their voices drawn Th' allured dolphins from their native depths.
1866 A. de Lamartine Biogr. Celebrated People II. 219 The renown of his daring and perverseness..left to the allured and abashed imagination of a young woman the charm and the danger of penetrating a mystery.
1906 J. N. Larned Bks., Culture & Char. vii. 177 Most of that allured and prolonged attention which we call ‘interest’ depends on this very continuity of impressions which such treatment breaks up.
1994 S. Sovatsky Eros, Consciousness & Kundalini (1999) 152 The ever-converging way in which I have defined the terms of the erotic vocabulary—‘eros’ as mystery, ‘commitment’ as the allured response to deeply sensed mystery..perhaps can have a rectifying effect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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