Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cajole

Cajole , intransitive verb

[French cajoler, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of Old French goale, jaiole, French geôle, dim. of cage a cage. See Cage, Jail.]

To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. — F. W. Robertson