allect

Verb

allect (third-person singular simple present allects, present participle allecting, simple past and past participle allected)

1. (obsolete) To allure; to entice; to sway.
   • […] for conducing wherof theye cannot devyse a better way then to allect the Kinges Grace, with faier promyses, to discend on this syde, to thentent their enterprise should be the more easye and feysable on that party;· and thus to passe, or sen an armye for this or sch like effect, were neyther...1524, Thomas Wolsey, Letter to Richard Pace
   • But as I said before, if the heretics had never begun with violence, though they had used all the ways they could to allect the people by preaching, though they had therewith done as Luther doth now, and as Mahomet did before, bring up opinions pleasant to the people, giving them liberty to...1528, Sir Thomas More, A Dialog Concerning Heresies
2. (obsolete) To attract; to draw to oneself.
   • Other were sent also to allect and entice lyz Robert Clyfford , and William Batly to retorne into Englande, promslinge to theim franke and free pardone of all offences, and commes promitted promcions and rewardes, for obeynge to the kynges request.1550, Edward Halle, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 176
   • The phansy of Amber delights to allect strawes, chaffe , and other festucous bodies, by an attraction , we confesse , obscure and weake enough, yet sufficiently manifest and strong to attest an Electricity, or attractive signature; for married to the mumie of our bodies, it appears superiour to the...1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes, page 77