Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To insnare; entrap; entangle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.
Examples
“Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘illaqueate’.
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Its a Stretch
pandiculation, persiflage, quixotic, abjure, non sequitur, ouevre, addlepated, shibboleth, bloviate, mundicidious, illaqueate, frigorific and 13 more...
Prolagus Thanks Verbophile, now there are 4 words I have to search for in the dictionary, instead of one. Jun 8, 2008
pavonine To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch Jun 8, 2008