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3 داجى داجى داجي داجيي , (K,) inf. n. مُدَاجَاةٌ, (TA,) He treated another with concealment of enmity; (K and TA in art. دجى;) as though he came to him فى دُجْيَةٍ, i. e. in darkness; (TA;) or from أَدْجَيْتُ البَيْتَ [q. v. infrà]. (Har p. 393.) ― -b2- [Hence,] مُدَاجَاةٌ signifies [also] The treating with gentleness, or blandishment; soothing, coaxing, wheedling, or cajoling; or deceiving, deluding, beguiling, circumventing, or outwitting; or striving, endeavouring, or desiring, to do so: (S, K:) the treating hypocritically: (Har ubi suprà:) the coaxing, or wheedling, with comely behaviour or speech, not rendering sincere brotherly affection; or simply the treating with comely behaviour: and the putting [one] off [in the matter of a right, or due], as one does by repeated promises. (TA.) You say, دَاجَيْتُهُ, meaning I treated him with gentleness, or blandishment; &c.; as though with concealment of enmity. (S.) ― -b3- Also The preventing, or forbidding, or refusing, in a manner between that of severity and that of laxness. (AA, S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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