allects

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
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