Translation for 'to tempt' from English to Esperanto

to tempt

tenti

• Yuanwu 's commentaries were added to tempt students trying to understand Zen conceptually and intellectually instead of by their own immediate experience.
• The Phoenix Force leaves her body and once again assumes Jean's form to tempt Cyclops to attack her so she can absorb his optic blasts and become strong again.
• In Mesopotamian myths, the alal was a kind of demon that, to tempt men, came out of the Underworld and took various forms, temptations that the inhabitants of Babylonia were able to reject by means of amulets.
• Blohm tried to tempt Vogt back from the US, but without success and Pohlmann returned to the company to become the new chief designer.
• He offers to pay Falstaff to court her, saying that once she has lost her honour he will be able to tempt her himself.

• One day, he is visited by a soothsayer, who says that he has come to tempt Zarathustra to his final sin – compassion ("mitleiden", which can also be translated "pity").
• According to the text, Samael opposed the creation of Adam and descended to Earth to tempt him into evil.
• The purpose of the gift is 'psychic poison': the ghola, named Hayt, is supposed to tempt the Kwisatz Haderach Paul into becoming that which he despises.
• As a bowler and all-rounder early in his career, he had a great leg cutter that is full length and aims at off stump that tempts batsmen to hit over mid-wicket or right down the ground against middle order batsmen, or aiming outside off to tempt lower-order batsmen to drive into the infielders.
• He offers to pay Falstaff to court her, saying that once she has lost her honour he will be able to tempt her himself.

• Some taught that existence was a snare and a delusion, that the world, the flesh, and the devil existed only to tempt weak humankind away from God.
• One of the tactics used by the Normans was to tempt the English to leave the shield wall to attack retreating Norman infantry only to destroy them in the open with cavalry.
• Attacks on merchant ships by pirates originating on the Somalia coast have brought suggestions from some security experts that Q-ships be used again to tempt pirates into attacking a well-defended ship.
• A pair of fallen angels named Harut and Marut is also mentioned to tempt people into learning sorcery.
• This figure is often interpreted as being Mara, the demon who tried to tempt the Buddha, or as Yama, the lord of death.

• Journalists later sniggered that God had apparently hidden fossils in the rocks to tempt geologists to infidelity.
• They teach that the righteous will be taken to heaven while the rest of humanity will be destroyed, leaving Satan with no one to tempt and effectively "bound".
• In revenge the god sends Destiny to tempt this new Eve into opening a box full of curses as a punishment for Earth’s revolt against Heaven.
• These are often described through their mythological embodiments as spiritual adversaries which endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman.