allect
To allure; to entice; to sway.
obsolete
[…] 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.
To attract; to draw to oneself.
obsolete
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.
Where it comes from
From Latin allectare, frequentative of allicere, allectum.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry allect (CC BY-SA 4.0).