beguiling

Verb

beguile (third-person singular simple present beguiles, present participle beguiling, simple past and past participle beguiled)

1. (transitive) To deceive or delude (using guile).
   • And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.1533 (date written), Thomas More, “The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance […]. Chapter XVIJ.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […]...
2. (transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.
   • I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
3. (transitive) To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.
   • We beguiled the hours away.