verb
Etymology
Origin of befool
First recorded in 1350–1400, befool is from the Middle English word befolen. See be-, fool 1
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The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune.
From Time Magazine Archive
You and your friends may be extremely clever—you have succeeded in enticing my wife away from her home, and you expect to befool me further.
From Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by William Le Queux
Or was he a very clever scoundrel, with irony lurking in his soft voice, and a chuckle that he could so befool me?
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Harry Bates
"I thought he was jesting, and said,— "'Ah, Sir Host, you would befool me and my wishes with a false image of Luther!'
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Whom befool not eye and lip, Breath and voice enchanting?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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