entoilv.
/ɛnˈtɔɪl/ archaic.figurative.1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. sig. Ff iij b Thus you are entoyled.1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood in Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. 46 The furder and more you striue against the truth, the furder and faster you entoyle your self.a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 13 Entoyled both their Navy, and their Campe, with a greater Power than theirs, both by Sea and Land.1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xi. lxxix. 203 Nere in the Net of Slothfulnesse entoyl'd.1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 99 So mus'd awhile, entoil'd in woofed phantasies.1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 43 Mounting until its mesh Entoiled all heads in a fluster.
transitive. To bring into toils or snares; to entrap, ensnare. Chiefly figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)]
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1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis v. 104 None more The chace affected, or t'intoyle the Bore.
1875 R. Browning Inn Album i. 11 You entoil my legs, And welcome, for I like it.
Derivatives
enˈtoilment n. rare the action of entoiling; the state of being entoiled.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > act of entrapping, ensnarement
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1855 R. Browning Before ii, in Men & Women II. 15 In torture and entoilment.
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