illaqueation

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noun

Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounillaqueation (plural illaqueations)

plural illaqueations

  1. obsoleteTrapping 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.

Origin

  1. Latinillaqueare
  2. Englishillaqueation

From Latin illaqueare + -ation.

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APA

illaqueation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illaqueation

MLA

“illaqueation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illaqueation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “illaqueation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illaqueation.

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