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entoil, v. arch.|ɛnˈtɔɪl|
Also 6–7 entoyle, 7 intoyl.
[f. en-1 + toil n.2]
trans. To bring into toils or snares; to entrap, ensnare. Chiefly fig.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. 104 None more The chace affected, or t'intoyle the Bore. 1875Browning Inn Album 11 You entoil my legs, And welcome, for I like it.
fig.1581W. Clarke in Confer. iv. (1584) Ff iij b, Thus you are entoyled. 1590Barrow & Greenwood in Confer. 46 The furder and more you striue against the truth, the furder and faster you entoyle your self. a1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 13 Entoyled both their Navy, and their Campe, with a greater Power than theirs, both by Sea and Land. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xi. lxxix, Nere in the net of Slothfulnesse entoyl'd. 1820Keats St. Agnes xxxii, So mused awhile, entoyled in woofed fantasies. 1879Browning Ned Bratts 43 Mounting until its mesh Entoiled all heads in a fluster.
Hence enˈtoilment rare, the action of entoiling; the state of being entoiled.
1855Browning Men & Women ii. Before, In torture and entoilment. |