TEMPT, TEMPTATION, TEMPTED, TEMPTER, TEMPTING, TEMPTRESS
ADJECTIVES
► SUGGESTING prompting to evil, tempting → 1591 obs.
► TEMPTACIOUS ► TEMPTASHOUS tempting, inviting → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TEMPTSOME tempting, inviting → 1836 Sc.
► TEMPTUOUS tempting, inviting → 19C Eng. dial.
► TEMTIOUS tempting, inviting → 1825 Eng. dial.
► TICING alluring, seductive, tempting; of sweet, pleasing manners → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YFONDED attempted, tried, tested, tempted → c1175 obs.
NOUNS
► EGGINGS temptations, inducements → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FAND the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation → a1300 obs.
► FANDING temptation → c1000 obs.
► FOND the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation → a1300 obs.
► FONDING temptation → c1000 obs.
► SUGGESTION prompting or incitement to evil; an instance of this, a temptation of the evil one → a1340 obs.
► TICE-PENNY anything tempting to buy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TICE-TRAP a matter of temptation or allurement; a glaring display to entice the beholder → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► FANDER a tempter → c1340 obs.
► FONDER a tempter → c1340 obs.
► VAMP a seductive, sexually aggressive woman; a temptress → 1911 US sl.
VERBS
► BLANDANDER to tempt by blandishment; to cajole → 1888 colloq.
► DANGLE A CARROT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE to tempt someone with an unobtainable offer → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► EGG to incite, to encourage, to urge; to provoke, to tempt → c1200 obs.
► EGG ON to incite, to encourage, to urge; to provoke, to tempt → 1566
► FAND ► FOND to endeavour to lead into evil; to tempt → c1175 obs.
► SUGGEST to prompt a person to devil; to tempt to or to do something; to seduce or tempt away → a1586 obs.
► TICE ► TISE to entice; to tempt, to allure, to attract; to coax, to wheedle → c1275 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.