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4 اغراهُ بِهِ ذ He made him to become attached to it, or fond of it; to be eagerly desirous of it; to adhere, cling, or cleave, to it; or to love it; (Msb, K;) syn. وَلَّعَهُ: (K:) one should not say بِهِ ↓ غرّاهُ . (TA. [But one says غُرِّىَ بِهِ: see 1.]) And أُغْرِىَ بِهِ: see 1. ― -b2- He incited, urged, or instigated, him to do it. (MA, and Har p. 355.) You say, أَغْرَيْتُ الكَلْبَ بِالصَّيْدِ (S) I incited, urged, or instigated, the dog, to, or against, the object, or objects, of the chase. (Kull.) ― -b3- And اغراهُ بِهِمْ He set him upon them, or over them; or made him to have mastery, dominion, or authority, over them. (Jel in xxxiii. 60.) ― -b4- اغرى بَيْنَهُمُ العَدَاوَةَ (tropical:) He occasioned enmity between them: (Jel in v. 17:) he cast enmity between them, as though he made it to cleave to them: (K, TA:) a tropical phrase. (TA.) And أَغْرَيْتُ بَيْنَهُمْ [in which an objective complement is understood] (S, Msb) i. q. أَفْسَدْتُ [meaning (assumed tropical:) I excited disorder, disturbance, dis- agreement, discord, dissension, strife, or quarrel-ling, or I made, or did, mischief, between them, or among them]. (Msb.) -A2- اغرى الشَّىْءَ, said of God, He made, or rendered, the thing goodly, or beautiful. (IKtt, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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