befool

1. (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).Examples: "Nothing doth so befoole a man as extreme passion; this doth both make them fooles, which otherwise are not; and show them to be fooles that are so […]"; "[T]hey ſettle upon their ovvn dregs, and grovv muddy and muſty vvith long eaſe, and their proſperity befooleth them to their ovvn deſtruction."; "Flattery is their nature—to coax, flatter and sweetly befool some one is every woman’s business."archaictransitive