illaqueable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin illaqueō (I entrap) +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

illaqueable (comparative more illaqueable, superlative most illaqueable)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) Capable of being ensnared or entrapped.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      As concerning the infamous and diabolical magic, he that would know whether or no a philosopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it

References[edit]

illaqueable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.