Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bait; allure with bait; allure; tempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To allure; to lay a bait for.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
allure ; to lay abait for.
Etymologies
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Latin inescatus, past participle of inescare; in- in + esca bait.
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Examples
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Proteus-like, in all forms and disguises, that go abroad in the night, to inescate and beguile young women, or to have their pleasure of other men's wives; and, if we may believe [5220] some relations, they have wardrobes of several suits in the colleges for that purpose.
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