Definition of "blandishing"

There was one Rumsey, a creature of Shaftesbury's, a man of very blandishing manners, with a sly, foxy expression of countenance, likely to put a physiognomist on his guard.

1844, Emma Robinson, Whitefriars, page 6

Mrs. Spivens could be very blandishing and fascinating when people had money to spend; but a poor girl wanting father—there was something too prosaic in that common every-day occurrence to rouse even into momentary compassion the pinions of Mrs. Spiven's lofty soul.

1869, Jenny's Geranium, Or, The Prize Flower of a London Court, page 28

There unquestionably are times in the life of every one, when either through a dislike of contemplating gloomy realities, or from an unwillingness to rack the mind by the investigation of abstract truth, or mazy science, a disposition is felt for resigning one's self to the enjoyment of those more blandishing scenes which the rainbow pencil of fancy is ever ready to paint.

2015, Lucia McMahon, ‎Deborah Schriver, To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, page 353