a. Also 8 tent-. [f. prec.: see -OUS.] Full of temptation; tempting, seductive, alluring.
1601. Chettle & Munday, Death Robt. Earl of Huntingdon, II. ii. F j. I my Liege, I: O! that temptatious tongue Had no where to be plac’t but in your head.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. I. iv. (1852), 329. His removal … was clogged with many temptatious difficulties.
1724. R. Welton, Chr. Faith & Pract., 210. Those that in this tentatious world deny their religion.
1889. Harper’s Mag., March, 665/2. There was something … winning and temptatious in it.
