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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cajole \Ca*jole"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cajoled}; p. pr & vb
n. {Cajoling}.] [F. cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in
a cage, to sing; hence to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
from the source of OF goale, jaiole F. ge[^o]le, dim. of
cage a cage. See {Cage}, {Jail}.]
To deceive with flattery or fair words to wheedle.
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a
reception of my views. --F. W.
Robertson
Syn: To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.
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