illaqueate

verb — 2 senses

illaqueate

verb

Etymology First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin illaqueātus, perfect passive participle of illaqueō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + laqueō (“to insnare”), from laqueus (“a noose, snare”).

1

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.
2

Obsolete, Participle, Past past participle of illaqueate

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