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† illaqueˈation Obs.
[n. of action f. L. illaqueāre to illaqueate.]
1. The action of catching or entangling in a noose or snare; entrapping or entangling in argument; the condition of being entangled or ensnared.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xiv. §5. 54 The more subtile fourmes of Sophismes, and Illaqueations. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xi. 361 The word ἀπήγξατο..doth not onely signifie suspension, or pendelous illaqueation..but also suffocation, strangulation or interception of breath. 1699Evelyn Let. Archd. Nicholson 10 Nov., Mem. (1857) III. 378 They wholly gave themselves up to learn to wrangle, and the arts of illaqueation.
2. ‘A snare, anything to catch another; a noose’ (J.). |