Verb

To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

We invited our friends round for dinner.

To request formally.

I invite you all to be seated.

To encourage.

I always invite criticism of my definitions.

Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.

* 1902 , Roosevelt,

The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.

To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

* Milton

to inveigle and invite the unwary sense

* Dryden

shady groves, that easy sleep invite

* Cowper

There no delusive hope invites despair.

Verb

(entic)

To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

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I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.