TEMPT

transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~er, tenter, from Latin ~are, tentare to feel, try Date: 13th century to entice to do wrong by promise of pleasure or gain, 2. to make trial of ; test , to try presumptuously ; provoke , to risk the dangers of, 3. to induce to do something, to cause to be strongly inclined , see: lure ~able adjective