lenocinate

English

Etymology

See lenocinant.

Verb

lenocinate (third-person singular simple present lenocinates, present participle lenocinating, simple past and past participle lenocinated)

1. (rare, obsolete) To entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).
   • 1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow:

     Cardinall Bellarmyne he abuseth more grosly, for he calleth him, a Cardinal parasite, the lenocinating pander of the whore of Babylon, […]

   • 1844, Samuel Annesley, The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate [...] Being Divers Sermons, Preached A.D. 1659-1689 by Several Ministers, page 508:

     Rolling eyes, wandering looks, out-stretched necks, fleering smiles, and lenocinating glances, disparage the most modest […]