[tempt] vt [ME, fr. OF tempter, tenter, fr. L temptare, tentare to feel, try] (13c) 1: to entice to do wrong by promise of pleasure or gain
2. a obs: to make trial of: test b: to try presumptuously: provoke c: to risk the dangers of 3 a: to induce to do something b: to cause to be strongly inclined "was ~ed to call it quits" syn see lure -- tempt.able adj