lenocinate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See lenocinant.
Verb
[edit]lenocinate (third-person singular simple present lenocinates, present participle lenocinating, simple past and past participle lenocinated)
- (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 […]