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  1. inescate love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To bait; allure with bait; allure; tempt.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To allure; to lay a bait for.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To allure; to lay a bait for.

Etymologies

  1. Latin inescatus, past participle of inescare; in- in + esca bait. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

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