beguile

To deceive or delude (using guile).transitive

• 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.
• I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.

To charm, delight or captivate.transitive

• 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston 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.
• I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.

To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.transitive

• We beguiled the hours away.