seducev.

/sɪˈdjuːs/

Forms: Middle English seduise, 1500s seduse, Scottish sedouse, 1500s– seduce.

Etymology: < Latin sēdūcĕre to lead aside or away, etc., < sē- (se- prefix) + dūcĕre to lead. In the earliest examples the proximate source was the French séduire (inflected séduis- ): see sedue v.

1. transitive. To persuade (a vassal, servant, soldier, etc.) to desert his allegiance or service.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)]

forteeOE

fortihtOE

bicharrea1000

perverta1382

faitc1430

perversec1475

seduce1477

seduec1485

seduct1490

wry1563

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > entice or seduce > from allegiance or a master

seduce1477

embezzle1579

subducec1600

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > incite revolt or strife [verb (transitive)] > incite to desert

seduce1477

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 104 Zethephius seduysed the peple ayenst him by tyrannye al euydente.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 62 He seducit diuerse grit personagis to rebel contrar athenes.

1562 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 216 Na persone seducit him fra the obedience of the Quene and magistratis..nor yit seducit him fra his faith.

1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. 7 Nov. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. ii. ii. 152 A great Armie..selected out of all the rebels in Ireland, and from all others that he can seduce to his partie.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 307 Suttle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 73 Those Persons of condition, who..had been seduced to do them Service throughout the Kingdom.

1718 Act 5 Geo. I c. 27 (title) An Act to prevent the Inconveniences arising from seducing Artificers in the Manufactures of Great Britain into foreign Parts.

1745 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 31 Of their being otherwise seduced by, or compelled to join with the Enemy.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 72 Lord Oxford seduced him over to his side.

1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) viii. 104 To seduce the representatives from their duty to their constituents.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxii. 379 He tried to seduce Cæsar's garrison, and was put to death for his treachery.

2. In wider sense: To lead (a person) astray in conduct or belief; to draw away from the right or intended course of action to or into a wrong one; to tempt, entice, or beguile to do something wrong, foolish, or unintended.

a. of persons or their action.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > entice or seduce

forteeOE

fortihtOE

forleadOE

forthteec1200

seduec1485

seduct1490

seduce1519

suggesta1586

debaucha1595

mispersuade1597

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > lead astray

forteeOE

fortihtOE

weyec1315

faitc1430

seduec1485

seduct1490

seduce1519

misincline1652

1519–20 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 3 He was nocht compellit, sedoussit nor coacit thar to.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. D.iij^v Lest the reader myght be seduced with you beleuing there is no lyfe of soulis departed.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 454 No persuasion will seduce him to thinke, that his Churche may straye..from the right course.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3 Duessa..Who with her forged beautie did seduce The hearts of some, that fairest her did weene.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 465 But afterwards seduced by his wife, he had in the selfe same Church,..one Altar for Christs Religion, and another for sacrifices unto Devils.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 96 To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. iii. 38 They would leave so grave a discipline and suffer themselves to be seduced into a worse.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Nov. (1948) II. 420 Leigh..gives a terrible account of Sterne; he reckons he is seduced by some wencher.

1775 E. Burke Let. to Marq. Rockingham in Corr. (1844) II. 41 We have been seduced, by various false representations..into a war.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiv, in Tales Crusaders II. 293 He seduced my simplicity to let him into the castle.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 82 He is seduced into a life of pleasure.

b. of things, conditions, circumstances.

ΚΠ

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Gi^v And nother declineth on the ryght hande, seduced by any prosperite or worldly delyght: ne on the lefte hande.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxj^v Three, whome pouertie, hatred, and hope of better fortune, had seduced.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 151 For me, the Gold of France did not seduce .

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Gg7 My natural Curiosity seduc'd me to spend some time in Ranging about the places near the River-side.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 82 Being seduced by the similitudes taken partly from artificial and manual operations.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 34. ⁋14 Anthea having wondered what could seduce her to stay so long was eager to set out.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. ii. 85 I am imperceptibly seduced into later periods, or rather am deviating from my subject.

1789 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 124 Could any circumstances seduce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents.

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 261 On one occasion his wit,..which was mostly subordinate to nature and tenderness, has seduced him into a string of felicitous antitheses.

1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xii. 151 The embarrassment which often seduces one to an insincere denial.

†c. intransitive. To practise seduction, use seductive measures. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (intransitive)] > habitually

seduce1597

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (intransitive)] > entice or seduce

tittle1560

seduce1597

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (intransitive)] > lead astray

seduce1597

1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 172 The Deuill..apperit to the.., and than seducit with the, and assurit the, thow suld newir want.

3. transitive. To induce (a woman) to surrender her chastity. Now said only of the man with whom the act of unchastity is committed (not, e.g., of a pander). Cf. debauch v. 2b.Now the prevailing sense. In early use often apprehended as a specific application of sense 1; in English law the plaintiff in an action for seducing a virgin is the parent or master who is supposed to have been deprived of her services.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > seduce

sardc950

jape1382

transvertc1450

seducec1560

debauch1711

betray1766

to do over1823

make1910

to race off1965

c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 18 The wysest scho may sone Sedusit be and schent.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 21 Many a maide hath beene seduced by them.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 355 One of the soldiers had seduced the wife of his host.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 237 She was seduced under promise of marriage.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xii. 151 His friend had taken advantage of his absence to seduce his wife.

4. To decoy (from or to a place), to lead astray (into). Obsolete except with notion of sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] > into a place, action, etc.

betrayc1250

weyec1315

deceivea1375

to draw out1579

fond1628

drill1662

seduce1673

surprise1696

to rope into1859

forset1872

steer1889

1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. iii. i. 74/1 That employment which seduced me hither.

1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 142 In prosecuting W^m Havyland and Abraham Bailey, for seducing, forceing, and transporting his son to Virginia.

1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 322 That Philosopher, who, while his Thoughts and Eyes were fix'd upon the Constellations, found himself seduc'd by his lower Parts into a Ditch.

1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 45 The peculiar Art which Bampfylde had of stealing, or rather seducing, Dogs.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 78 Mrs. Leggatt had been seduced by her husband, under pretence of taking an airing to Kingston, to the prisoner's house.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 259 The rascal, after secuding us a mile and a half out of our way, escaped our guns.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 229 Interminable staircases which seduce us upwards to no successful result.

†5. To win by charm or attractiveness. Obsolete. rare. [? a Gallicism; compare seducing adj.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > attract [verb (transitive)]

attract1584

trance1597

fetch1607

magnetize1658

engage1693

seduce1747

appeala1885

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > charm

charmc1440

allure?1532

attract1584

sirenize1592

enchant1593

enamour1600

fetch1607

inveiglea1720

seduce1747

appeal1881

1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 29 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1077 That engaging manner, and those graces, which seduce and prepossess people in your favour at first sight.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xiv. 172 One reason why she seduces casual attention is that she never courts it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	seduce
释义	seducev. /sɪˈdjuːs/ Forms: Middle English seduise, 1500s seduse, Scottish sedouse, 1500s– seduce. Etymology: < Latin sēdūcĕre to lead aside or away, etc., < sē- (se- prefix) + dūcĕre to lead. In the earliest examples the proximate source was the French séduire (inflected séduis- ): see sedue v. 1. transitive. To persuade (a vassal, servant, soldier, etc.) to desert his allegiance or service. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] forteeOE fortihtOE bicharrea1000 perverta1382 faitc1430 perversec1475 seduce1477 seduec1485 seduct1490 wry1563 the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > entice or seduce > from allegiance or a master seduce1477 embezzle1579 subducec1600 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > incite revolt or strife [verb (transitive)] > incite to desert seduce1477 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 104 Zethephius seduysed the peple ayenst him by tyrannye al euydente. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 62 He seducit diuerse grit personagis to rebel contrar athenes. 1562 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 216 Na persone seducit him fra the obedience of the Quene and magistratis..nor yit seducit him fra his faith. 1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. 7 Nov. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. ii. ii. 152 A great Armie..selected out of all the rebels in Ireland, and from all others that he can seduce to his partie. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 307 Suttle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels. View more context for this quotation 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 73 Those Persons of condition, who..had been seduced to do them Service throughout the Kingdom. 1718 Act 5 Geo. I c. 27 (title) An Act to prevent the Inconveniences arising from seducing Artificers in the Manufactures of Great Britain into foreign Parts. 1745 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 31 Of their being otherwise seduced by, or compelled to join with the Enemy. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 72 Lord Oxford seduced him over to his side. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) viii. 104 To seduce the representatives from their duty to their constituents. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxii. 379 He tried to seduce Cæsar's garrison, and was put to death for his treachery. 2. In wider sense: To lead (a person) astray in conduct or belief; to draw away from the right or intended course of action to or into a wrong one; to tempt, entice, or beguile to do something wrong, foolish, or unintended. a. of persons or their action. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > entice or seduce forteeOE fortihtOE forleadOE forthteec1200 seduec1485 seduct1490 seduce1519 suggesta1586 debaucha1595 mispersuade1597 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > lead astray forteeOE fortihtOE weyec1315 faitc1430 seduec1485 seduct1490 seduce1519 misincline1652 1519–20 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 3 He was nocht compellit, sedoussit nor coacit thar to. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. D.iij^v Lest the reader myght be seduced with you beleuing there is no lyfe of soulis departed. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 454 No persuasion will seduce him to thinke, that his Churche may straye..from the right course. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3 Duessa..Who with her forged beautie did seduce The hearts of some, that fairest her did weene. View more context for this quotation 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 465 But afterwards seduced by his wife, he had in the selfe same Church,..one Altar for Christs Religion, and another for sacrifices unto Devils. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 96 To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. iii. 38 They would leave so grave a discipline and suffer themselves to be seduced into a worse. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Nov. (1948) II. 420 Leigh..gives a terrible account of Sterne; he reckons he is seduced by some wencher. 1775 E. Burke Let. to Marq. Rockingham in Corr. (1844) II. 41 We have been seduced, by various false representations..into a war. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiv, in Tales Crusaders II. 293 He seduced my simplicity to let him into the castle. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 82 He is seduced into a life of pleasure. b. of things, conditions, circumstances. ΚΠ 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Gi^v And nother declineth on the ryght hande, seduced by any prosperite or worldly delyght: ne on the lefte hande. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxj^v Three, whome pouertie, hatred, and hope of better fortune, had seduced. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 151 For me, the Gold of France did not seduce . View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Gg7 My natural Curiosity seduc'd me to spend some time in Ranging about the places near the River-side. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 82 Being seduced by the similitudes taken partly from artificial and manual operations. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 34. ⁋14 Anthea having wondered what could seduce her to stay so long was eager to set out. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. ii. 85 I am imperceptibly seduced into later periods, or rather am deviating from my subject. 1789 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) III. 124 Could any circumstances seduce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 261 On one occasion his wit,..which was mostly subordinate to nature and tenderness, has seduced him into a string of felicitous antitheses. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xii. 151 The embarrassment which often seduces one to an insincere denial. †c. intransitive. To practise seduction, use seductive measures. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (intransitive)] > habitually seduce1597 the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (intransitive)] > entice or seduce tittle1560 seduce1597 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (intransitive)] > lead astray seduce1597 1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 172 The Deuill..apperit to the.., and than seducit with the, and assurit the, thow suld newir want. 3. transitive. To induce (a woman) to surrender her chastity. Now said only of the man with whom the act of unchastity is committed (not, e.g., of a pander). Cf. debauch v. 2b.Now the prevailing sense. In early use often apprehended as a specific application of sense 1; in English law the plaintiff in an action for seducing a virgin is the parent or master who is supposed to have been deprived of her services. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > seduce sardc950 jape1382 transvertc1450 seducec1560 debauch1711 betray1766 to do over1823 make1910 to race off1965 c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 18 The wysest scho may sone Sedusit be and schent. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 21 Many a maide hath beene seduced by them. View more context for this quotation 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 355 One of the soldiers had seduced the wife of his host. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 237 She was seduced under promise of marriage. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xii. 151 His friend had taken advantage of his absence to seduce his wife. 4. To decoy (from or to a place), to lead astray (into). Obsolete except with notion of sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] > into a place, action, etc. betrayc1250 weyec1315 deceivea1375 to draw out1579 fond1628 drill1662 seduce1673 surprise1696 to rope into1859 forset1872 steer1889 1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. iii. i. 74/1 That employment which seduced me hither. 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 142 In prosecuting W^m Havyland and Abraham Bailey, for seducing, forceing, and transporting his son to Virginia. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit ii, in Tale of Tub 322 That Philosopher, who, while his Thoughts and Eyes were fix'd upon the Constellations, found himself seduc'd by his lower Parts into a Ditch. 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 45 The peculiar Art which Bampfylde had of stealing, or rather seducing, Dogs. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 78 Mrs. Leggatt had been seduced by her husband, under pretence of taking an airing to Kingston, to the prisoner's house. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 259 The rascal, after secuding us a mile and a half out of our way, escaped our guns. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 229 Interminable staircases which seduce us upwards to no successful result. †5. To win by charm or attractiveness. Obsolete. rare. [? a Gallicism; compare seducing adj.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > attract [verb (transitive)] attract1584 trance1597 fetch1607 magnetize1658 engage1693 seduce1747 appeala1885 the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > charm charmc1440 allure?1532 attract1584 sirenize1592 enchant1593 enamour1600 fetch1607 inveiglea1720 seduce1747 appeal1881 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 29 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1077 That engaging manner, and those graces, which seduce and prepossess people in your favour at first sight. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xiv. 172 One reason why she seduces casual attention is that she never courts it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1477
随便看	welkinlike welkins welkinway welkinwise welkinwizard welks well well a well well acquainted well and fine well and good well and truly well and warm well as well at ease well away well basket well beam well begone well beseen well bespoken well best versed well better versed well booked well booted