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
That is her way of thanking us for offering her our hospitality,—just lying to us, and trying to befool us for no other purpose than to permit her to continue her disgraceful conduct.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
For look," said they, "how we have been discovered in both islands whither we have gone; how the youth has escaped from us; how one Moor by himself has come to befool us.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Do you think you can befool me with the honeyed slaver of your lips as you have the weaker brethren?
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Mere cleverness serves often only to befool its possessor.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
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