illaqueate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin illaqueatus, past participle of illaqueare; prefix il- (“in”) + laqueare (“to insnare”), from laqueus (“noose, snare”).
Verb[edit]
illaqueate (third-person singular simple present illaqueates, present participle illaqueating, simple past and past participle illaqueated)
- (archaic) To grab; seize, or catch.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
- Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
References[edit]
“illaqueate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
illaqueāte