illaqueation
nounEtymology From Latin illaqueare + -ation.
1
Obsolete Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
- And even that the Hebrews used this present way of hanging, by illaqueation or pendulous suffocation, in public justice and executions, the expressions and examples in Scripture conclude not, beyond good doubt.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21:
2
A snare; a trap.
3
The process of pulling away an inverted eyelash by passing a loop of thread behind it.