illaqueable

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adjective

Capable of being ensnared or entrapped.

OriginLatin illaqueō →
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Meanings

adjectiveillaqueable (comparative more illaqueable, superlative most illaqueable)

comparative more illaqueable · superlative most illaqueable

  1. nonce wordobsoleteCapable of being ensnared or entrapped.

    As concerning the infamous and diabolical magic, he that would know whether or no a philosopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it

    1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinillaqueō“to entrap”
  2. Englishillaqueable

From Latin illaqueō (“to entrap”) + -able.

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Chicago

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