Definition of tempt

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Tempt (v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

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Delilah :: Delilah (n.) The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress..
Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury..
Volow :: Volow (v. t.) To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
Antinomy :: Antinomy (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience..
Mock :: Mock (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Companion :: Companion (n.) A fellow; -- in contempt.
Derider :: Derider (n.) One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer..
Pooh-pooh :: Pooh-pooh (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!.
Leer :: Leer (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look..
Exploder :: Exploder (n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.
Seduce :: Seduce (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
Indignation :: Indignation (n.) The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence..
Geck :: Geck (n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt..
Ah :: Ah (interj.) An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance..
Temptatious :: Temptatious (a.) Tempting.
Suck :: Suck (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube..
Despiteful :: Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Bloat :: Bloat (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow..
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