Meanings
plural illaqueations
- 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 - A snare; a trap.
Origin
- Latinillaqueare
- Englishillaqueation
From Latin illaqueare + -ation.
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