خَنَعَ إِلَيْهِ

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, and لَهُ, (ISd,) [aorist خَنَعَ ,] verbal noun خُنُوعٌ (S, ISd, K) and خَنْعٌ; (ISd;) [and apparently خَنِعَ, aorist خَنَعَ , verbal noun خَنَعٌ; (see خَنَعٌ, below; and خَنِعٌ;)] He was, or became, lowly, humble, or submissive, (S, ISd, K,) to him, and petitioned him, or solicited him, he, the latter, not being a fit person to be petitioned, or solicited: (ISd:) or خُنُوعٌ signifies the being low, vile, base, abject, or submissive; almost always in an improper case. (Ham p. 44.)
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Accord. to Lth, (TA,) خَنْعٌ signifies The act of playing, toying, or dallying, and conversing with one of the other sex, enticing, or striving to induce, the latter to yield to one's desire, and behaving in a soft, tender, or blandishing, manner. (K, TA.) You say, خَنَعَ النِّسَاءَ, [or more probably, لِلنِّسَاءِ,] He played, &c., with women, and behaved in a soft, tender, or blandishing, manner to them. (TK.)
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خَنَعَ, aorist خَنَعَ , (Lth, K,) verbal noun خَنْعٌ and خُنُوعٌ, (Lth,) also signifies He acted in a suspicious manner, or so as to induce suspicion or evil opinion; (K;) he acted vitiously, or immorally; or committed adultery, or fornication. (Lth, K.) You say, خَنَعَ إِلَيْهَا He came to her for a vitious, or an immoral, purpose; or for the purpose of adultery, or fornication: (Lth, TA:) or, as some say, he listened to her. (TA.)
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And خَنَعَ بِهِ, aorist خَنَعَ , verbal noun خُنُوعٌ, He acted perfidiously, unfaithfully, or treacherously, to him; or broke his compact, contract, covenant, or the like, with him. (TA.)
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خَنَعَ فُلَانًا إِلَى السَّوْءَةِ He, or it, invited such a one to that which was foul, abominable, or evil; as also خَضَعَ. (TA in article خضع.)

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