transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French tempter, tenter, from Latin temptare, tentare to feel, try
Date: 13th century
to entice to do wrong by promise of pleasure or gain,
2. to make trial of ; test , to try presumptuously ; provoke , to risk the dangers of,
3. to induce to do something, to cause to be strongly inclined , see: lure temptable adjective