allect

verb

1. (obsolete)To allure; to entice; to sway.

   “[…] for conducing wherof theye cannot devyse a better way then to allect the Kinges Grace, with faier promyses, to discend on this syde, to thentent their enterprise should be the more easye and feysable on that party;· and thus to passe, or sen an armye for this or sch like effect, were neyther wisdome profit honnor ne good counsaill.”

   “But as I said before, if the heretics had never begun with violence, though they had used all the ways they could to allect the people by preaching, though they had therewith done as Luther doth now, and as Mahomet did before, bring up opinions pleasant to the people, giving them liberty to lewdness, yet if they had set violence aside, good Christian people had peradventure yet unto this day used less violence toward them than they do now.”

2. (obsolete)To attract; to draw to oneself.

   “Other were sent also to allect and entice lyz Robert Clyfford , and William Batly to retorne into Englande, promslinge to theim franke and free pardone of all offences, and commes promitted promcions and rewardes, for obeynge to the kynges request.”

   “The phansy of Amber delights to allect strawes, chaffe , and other festucous bodies, by an attraction , we confesse , obscure and weake enough, yet sufficiently manifest and strong to attest an Electricity, or attractive signature; for married to the mumie of our bodies, it appears superiour to the hmane Magnet, draws counter to it, and by the interest entitleth is selfe to the dignity of a Zenexton or preservatory Amulet against contagion.”

   “As Walter Pagel explains of Helmont's anti-dualist metaphysics, the capacity of the sapphire “Magnetically to allect . . . pestilential virulency” is both spiritual and material, the “product and expression of that sense and sympathy which dwell in each object of the created world."”