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ensnare, v.|ɛnˈsnɛə(r)|
Also 6–9 insnare.
[f. en-1 + snare.]
trans. To catch (animals, etc.) in a snare; to snare. Chiefly transf. and fig. to entangle (persons) in difficulties; to entrap, beguile, lure. Also absol.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 213 Many have beene so insnared and intangled..in nettes of doubtfull reasons. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 243 That Bottel'd Spider, Whose deadly Web ensnareth thee about. 1768Beattie Minstr. ii. xxviii, Spiders ensnare, snakes poison, tigers prowl. 1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. liv. 288 Would rather shoot a pheasant or insnare a trout. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 133 These people..ensnare the waterfowl of the ponds and rivers.
transf. and fig.1593Shakes. Lucr. 485 Thy beauty hath ensnar'd thee to this night. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. ix. (1611) 199 That which hath..insnared the iudgements of sundry good..men. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 717 She ensnar'd Mankind with her faire looks. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. xxii. 16 They sought to insnare Christ. 1730Thomson Autumn 1292 Let these Ensnare the wretched in the toils of law. 1749Smollett Regicide iv. iii, Curse on these faithless drops Which fall but to ensnare! 1866M. W. Freer Regency Anne Austria II. 18 Ensnared by her beauty and so egregiously duped. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxxix. 466 A troop of horse, insnared by a false guide in an ambush among large trees.
Hence enˈsnared ppl. a.
1643Milton Divorce i. xiv. (1851) 56 Committing two ensnared souls..to kindle one another..with a hatred inconcileable. 1658J. Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1068 The ensnared little creatures..do lie still. |