[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who beguiles or deludes; a deceiver.
1382. Wyclif, Job xii. 16. The begilere [1388 hym that disseyueth] and hym that is begiled.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 175. Deceyuours or begylers of the ladyes and damoysels.
1526. Tindale, Jude i. 18. That there shulde be begylers in the last tyme.
1623. Wodroephe, Fr. & Eng. Gram., 476. To-day a beguiler, to-morrow beguiled.
Mod. A beguiler of the unwary.
