entrapv.¹

Brit.

/ᵻnˈtrap/,

/ɛnˈtrap/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈtræp/,

/ɛnˈtræp/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s intrapp, 1500s–1600s intrappe, 1500s–1800s intrap; also Scottish pre-1700 intrape.

β. 1500s–1600s entrapp, 1500s–1600s entrappe, 1500s– entrap; also Scottish pre-1700 entrape.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: en- prefix¹, trap n.¹, trap v.¹

Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + either trap n.¹ or trap v.¹ Compare earlier trap v.¹ and slightly earlier attrap v.¹Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French entraper , Old French antraper , Middle French entrapper to catch in a trap (late 12th cent.). With the α. forms compare in- prefix¹.

1. transitive. To catch in a trap or as if in a trap; to prevent from escaping; = trap v.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [verb (transitive)] > to catch or entrap

snarea1425

trapa1500

entrap1531

halter1574

snitch1900

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)]

shrenchc897

beswike971

betrapa1000

bewindOE

undernimc1175

undertakec1175

bisayc1200

beguile?c1225

catchc1225

beginc1250

biwilea1275

tele?a1300

enginec1300

lime13..

umwrithea1340

engrin1340

oblige1340

belimec1350

enlacec1374

girnc1375

encumber138.

gnarec1380

enwrap1382

briguea1387

snarl1387

upbroid1387

trap1390

entrikea1393

englue1393

gildera1400

aguilec1400

betraisec1400

embrygec1400

snare1401

lacea1425

maska1425

begluec1430

marl1440

supprise?c1450

to prey ona1500

attrap1524

circumvene1526

entangle1526

tangle1526

entrap1531

mesh1532

embrake1542

crawl1548

illaqueate1548

intricate1548

inveigle1551

circumvent1553

felter1567

besnare1571

in trick1572

ensnare1576

overcatch1577

underfong1579

salt1580

entoil1581

comprehend1584

windlassa1586

folda1592

solicit1592

toil1592

bait1600

beset1600

engage1603

benet1604

imbrier1605

ambush1611

inknot1611

enmesha1616

trammela1616

fool1620

pinion1621

aucupate1630

fang1637

surprise1642

underreacha1652

trepan1656

ensnarl1658

stalk1659

irretiate1660

coil1748

nail1766

net1803

to rope in1840

mousetrap1870

spider1891

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xviii. sig. I.vi^v It increaseth in them..sleight and policie to fynde such passages & straytes, where they may preuent or intrappe their enemies.

1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. sig. M.iii Remembre neuer to ioyne in battayle, except thou haue before vsed some pollicie, or layed thy traynes, to entrappe thyne enemyes.

1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile f. 19^v The same [tree] of a suddaine turned backe, and closed with such violence, catching, entrapping, and crushing his handes.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §59. 471/1 Manuel..was..intrapped in the straights of Cilicia, and his Army miserably cut off.

1712 J. Warder True Amazons 58 Many [Wasps in Pots] will be entrap'd.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 272 The wild elephant, upon seeing himself entrapped in this manner, instantly attempts to use violence.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals xix. 285 Spiders were divided..according to the mode in which they entrap or seize their prey.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §27. 376 The residue of the air originally entrapped in the interstices of the snow.

1906 Windsor Mag. 24 596/1 Some [plants] are specially adapted for attracting and entrapping insects.

1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xi. 235 The addition of inside lap or exhaust lap: (i) closes the exhaust port earlier in the stroke, and so entraps a certain volume of steam in the cylinder.

2015 Wanneroo (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. 3 If the balloon has a string attached, there is also a risk that this could strangle or entrap animals.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts.

a. To lead into difficulty, danger, etc., by trickery or deceit; to obtain or gain power over by trickery; to lure into doing something compromising or incriminating; (later also) to catch by entrapment (entrapment n. 2).The usual sense.

(a) transitive. Without construction.

ΚΠ

α.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiiii. f. 169 In this wise pytchynge their nette of adulation, they intrappe the noble and vertuous harte.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 9 Being first entrapped and foundred with the like vice of drunkennesse.

1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 97 Give me a wise fore-cast, that the subtilty of the Devill may not entrap me.

1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium 2 July in C. Bridenbaugh Gentleman's Progress (1992) 74 Their women are so homely that a man must never have seen any other luffees else they will never entrap him.

1781 Protestant Mag. Aug. 42 This I may stile the first Popish plot laid with a design to entrap me.

a1821 J. Keats Otho i. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 127 I do not personate The stage-play emperor to entrap applause.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. v. 290 He had entrapped the confidence of another.

1917 Pract. Druggist Jan. 28/1 A druggist must sure be some suspicious character, judging from the vast army of spies, secret service men,..and everyday harness bulls, which are continually trying to entrap the vendors of henna and senna.

1949 Shakespeare Assoc. Bull. 24 251 In Elizabethan scholarship Cartesian intuitions continually entrap us.

2003 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 17/1 An anonymous chain hotel in Salt Lake City, the sort of place where the FBI entrap corrupt businessmen as they hand over briefcases full of cash.

β. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips Pref. sig. A.viii The seconde [persecution]..which intrapped also the Authour of this worke.1573 Supplic. Henry VIII in R. Barnes Wks. 200/1 Neither to intrappe them, nor betray them.a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 217 This Interview was to intrap his person.1842 C. Darwin Let. Dec. in Corr. (1986) II. 340 As Charlesworth talked of legal proceedings, is it not probable that this letter has been deliberately written somehow to intrap the council.

(b) transitive. With to, into.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > subtly or deceptively

bicharrec1175

inveigle1549

stale1557

entrap1566

to link in1592

solicit1592

beguile1594

insinuate1594

cozen1599

milka1625

trick1707

veigle1745

1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xliiii. f. ccclviii^v He..maie withdrawe his foote from the snares of Sathan, and well espie his falshoode, and so eschewe soch erroure, as he wolde entrappe him into.

1637 H. Sydenham Serm. Solemne Occasions ii. 105 'Tis the principall snare and pit fall the Divell useth to entrap us to our destruction.

1764 D. E. Baker Compan. to Play-house I. App. at Match-maker Fitted The designing Guardian of a Woman of no Fortune..is at last entrapped into Marriage with the Girl herself.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vi. i. 127 Her whole study will be to entrap you into matrimony.

1851 R. Hussey Rise Papal Power i. 38 Having been at first persuaded or entrapped, into an approval of Pelagius' doctrines.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 257 Entrapping men to destruction by the literal fulfilment of an oath.

1884 Manch. Examiner 14 June 4/8 Entrapping the Legislature into conclusions which are not openly declared.

1903 Christian Reg. (Boston) 18 June 720/2 ‘Causes’ innumerable sought to enlist him as their ‘worker’..but none entrapped him into service.

1948 R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Austral. 166 Another..tried to entrap me into tasting the sulphuretted-hydrogen-loaded water.

2002 N. L. Lunger Big Bang ii. 27 The NRA has accused them of harassing honest gun dealers and legitimate gun buyers by trying to entrap them into violations.

b. transitive. With reference to written or verbal communication. To involve in contradiction; to draw into making an erroneous, compromising, or incriminating statement or admission. Cf. trap v.¹ 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > in a fault or error

trip1557

entrap1566

trap1629

to catch out1759

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxx. f. 60^v The Iewe whiche in deede was verie wise, perceiued well that Saladine went about to intrappe him in wordes.

1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe xxii. 501/2 To intangle or intrap one in his woordes is to propounde a doubtefull or daungerouse question, out of the which a man hath no lesse trouble to vnfolde himselfe, than out of a snare or net.

1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. viii. 11 Rise not vp (in anger) at the presence of an iniurious person, least he lie in waite to entrap thee in thy words.

1623 E. Sutton Anthropophagus 4 They meant but to trip him in his words, and to intrap him in his speeches.

a1714 J. Sharp Serm. (1754) IV. viii. 139 The Pharisees and Herodians..had taken counsel together how they might entrap our Saviour in his talk.

1726 J. Stevens New Dict. Span. & Eng. at Coger Cogér a úno palabras, to intrap a man in his own words.

1870 F. C. Bowen Logic ix. 291 Then the respondent is entrapped whether he answer in the Affirmative or the Negative.

1882 Nation 7 Dec. 482/3 The Tory skirmishers..worry the Foreign Office by incessant questions intended..to entrap them into admitting that the trial is in fact being conducted under their supervision.

1922 Social Progress Jan. 5/1 Even the most cautious person may be entrapped into saying something that can be misrepresented.

1997 B. R. Kirwin Mad, Bad, & Innocent (2002) v. 160 One would think that the prospect of a shrink trying to get inside your head to entrap you or railroad you with your own words would inspire enormous dread.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	entrap
释义	entrapv.¹ Brit. /ᵻnˈtrap/, /ɛnˈtrap/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtræp/, /ɛnˈtræp/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s intrapp, 1500s–1600s intrappe, 1500s–1800s intrap; also Scottish pre-1700 intrape. β. 1500s–1600s entrapp, 1500s–1600s entrappe, 1500s– entrap; also Scottish pre-1700 entrape. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: en- prefix¹, trap n.¹, trap v.¹ Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + either trap n.¹ or trap v.¹ Compare earlier trap v.¹ and slightly earlier attrap v.¹Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French entraper , Old French antraper , Middle French entrapper to catch in a trap (late 12th cent.). With the α. forms compare in- prefix¹. 1. transitive. To catch in a trap or as if in a trap; to prevent from escaping; = trap v.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [verb (transitive)] > to catch or entrap snarea1425 trapa1500 entrap1531 halter1574 snitch1900 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] shrenchc897 beswike971 betrapa1000 bewindOE undernimc1175 undertakec1175 bisayc1200 beguile?c1225 catchc1225 beginc1250 biwilea1275 tele?a1300 enginec1300 lime13.. umwrithea1340 engrin1340 oblige1340 belimec1350 enlacec1374 girnc1375 encumber138. gnarec1380 enwrap1382 briguea1387 snarl1387 upbroid1387 trap1390 entrikea1393 englue1393 gildera1400 aguilec1400 betraisec1400 embrygec1400 snare1401 lacea1425 maska1425 begluec1430 marl1440 supprise?c1450 to prey ona1500 attrap1524 circumvene1526 entangle1526 tangle1526 entrap1531 mesh1532 embrake1542 crawl1548 illaqueate1548 intricate1548 inveigle1551 circumvent1553 felter1567 besnare1571 in trick1572 ensnare1576 overcatch1577 underfong1579 salt1580 entoil1581 comprehend1584 windlassa1586 folda1592 solicit1592 toil1592 bait1600 beset1600 engage1603 benet1604 imbrier1605 ambush1611 inknot1611 enmesha1616 trammela1616 fool1620 pinion1621 aucupate1630 fang1637 surprise1642 underreacha1652 trepan1656 ensnarl1658 stalk1659 irretiate1660 coil1748 nail1766 net1803 to rope in1840 mousetrap1870 spider1891 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xviii. sig. I.vi^v It increaseth in them..sleight and policie to fynde such passages & straytes, where they may preuent or intrappe their enemies. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. sig. M.iii Remembre neuer to ioyne in battayle, except thou haue before vsed some pollicie, or layed thy traynes, to entrappe thyne enemyes. 1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile f. 19^v The same [tree] of a suddaine turned backe, and closed with such violence, catching, entrapping, and crushing his handes. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §59. 471/1 Manuel..was..intrapped in the straights of Cilicia, and his Army miserably cut off. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 58 Many [Wasps in Pots] will be entrap'd. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 272 The wild elephant, upon seeing himself entrapped in this manner, instantly attempts to use violence. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals xix. 285 Spiders were divided..according to the mode in which they entrap or seize their prey. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. §27. 376 The residue of the air originally entrapped in the interstices of the snow. 1906 Windsor Mag. 24 596/1 Some [plants] are specially adapted for attracting and entrapping insects. 1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xi. 235 The addition of inside lap or exhaust lap: (i) closes the exhaust port earlier in the stroke, and so entraps a certain volume of steam in the cylinder. 2015 Wanneroo (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. 3 If the balloon has a string attached, there is also a risk that this could strangle or entrap animals. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. a. To lead into difficulty, danger, etc., by trickery or deceit; to obtain or gain power over by trickery; to lure into doing something compromising or incriminating; (later also) to catch by entrapment (entrapment n. 2).The usual sense. (a) transitive. Without construction. ΚΠ α. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiiii. f. 169 In this wise pytchynge their nette of adulation, they intrappe the noble and vertuous harte. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 9 Being first entrapped and foundred with the like vice of drunkennesse. 1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 97 Give me a wise fore-cast, that the subtilty of the Devill may not entrap me. 1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium 2 July in C. Bridenbaugh Gentleman's Progress (1992) 74 Their women are so homely that a man must never have seen any other luffees else they will never entrap him. 1781 Protestant Mag. Aug. 42 This I may stile the first Popish plot laid with a design to entrap me. a1821 J. Keats Otho i. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 127 I do not personate The stage-play emperor to entrap applause. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. v. 290 He had entrapped the confidence of another. 1917 Pract. Druggist Jan. 28/1 A druggist must sure be some suspicious character, judging from the vast army of spies, secret service men,..and everyday harness bulls, which are continually trying to entrap the vendors of henna and senna. 1949 Shakespeare Assoc. Bull. 24 251 In Elizabethan scholarship Cartesian intuitions continually entrap us. 2003 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 17/1 An anonymous chain hotel in Salt Lake City, the sort of place where the FBI entrap corrupt businessmen as they hand over briefcases full of cash. β. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips Pref. sig. A.viii The seconde [persecution]..which intrapped also the Authour of this worke.1573 Supplic. Henry VIII in R. Barnes Wks. 200/1 Neither to intrappe them, nor betray them.a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 217 This Interview was to intrap his person.1842 C. Darwin Let. Dec. in Corr. (1986) II. 340 As Charlesworth talked of legal proceedings, is it not probable that this letter has been deliberately written somehow to intrap the council. (b) transitive. With to, into. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > subtly or deceptively bicharrec1175 inveigle1549 stale1557 entrap1566 to link in1592 solicit1592 beguile1594 insinuate1594 cozen1599 milka1625 trick1707 veigle1745 1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xliiii. f. ccclviii^v He..maie withdrawe his foote from the snares of Sathan, and well espie his falshoode, and so eschewe soch erroure, as he wolde entrappe him into. 1637 H. Sydenham Serm. Solemne Occasions ii. 105 'Tis the principall snare and pit fall the Divell useth to entrap us to our destruction. 1764 D. E. Baker Compan. to Play-house I. App. at Match-maker Fitted The designing Guardian of a Woman of no Fortune..is at last entrapped into Marriage with the Girl herself. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vi. i. 127 Her whole study will be to entrap you into matrimony. 1851 R. Hussey Rise Papal Power i. 38 Having been at first persuaded or entrapped, into an approval of Pelagius' doctrines. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 257 Entrapping men to destruction by the literal fulfilment of an oath. 1884 Manch. Examiner 14 June 4/8 Entrapping the Legislature into conclusions which are not openly declared. 1903 Christian Reg. (Boston) 18 June 720/2 ‘Causes’ innumerable sought to enlist him as their ‘worker’..but none entrapped him into service. 1948 R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Austral. 166 Another..tried to entrap me into tasting the sulphuretted-hydrogen-loaded water. 2002 N. L. Lunger Big Bang ii. 27 The NRA has accused them of harassing honest gun dealers and legitimate gun buyers by trying to entrap them into violations. b. transitive. With reference to written or verbal communication. To involve in contradiction; to draw into making an erroneous, compromising, or incriminating statement or admission. Cf. trap v.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > in a fault or error trip1557 entrap1566 trap1629 to catch out1759 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxx. f. 60^v The Iewe whiche in deede was verie wise, perceiued well that Saladine went about to intrappe him in wordes. 1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe xxii. 501/2 To intangle or intrap one in his woordes is to propounde a doubtefull or daungerouse question, out of the which a man hath no lesse trouble to vnfolde himselfe, than out of a snare or net. 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. viii. 11 Rise not vp (in anger) at the presence of an iniurious person, least he lie in waite to entrap thee in thy words. View more context for this quotation 1623 E. Sutton Anthropophagus 4 They meant but to trip him in his words, and to intrap him in his speeches. a1714 J. Sharp Serm. (1754) IV. viii. 139 The Pharisees and Herodians..had taken counsel together how they might entrap our Saviour in his talk. 1726 J. Stevens New Dict. Span. & Eng. at Coger Cogér a úno palabras, to intrap a man in his own words. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic ix. 291 Then the respondent is entrapped whether he answer in the Affirmative or the Negative. 1882 Nation 7 Dec. 482/3 The Tory skirmishers..worry the Foreign Office by incessant questions intended..to entrap them into admitting that the trial is in fact being conducted under their supervision. 1922 Social Progress Jan. 5/1 Even the most cautious person may be entrapped into saying something that can be misrepresented. 1997 B. R. Kirwin Mad, Bad, & Innocent (2002) v. 160 One would think that the prospect of a shrink trying to get inside your head to entrap you or railroad you with your own words would inspire enormous dread. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † entrapv.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: en- prefix¹, trap v.² Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + trap v.² Compare earlier entrapped adj., attrap v.² Obsolete. rare. transitive. To adorn (a horse) with trappings; to caparison. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > trap or caparison wry1297 trap13.. house?a1513 caparison1597 entrap1654 1654 R. Codrington tr. Sextus Aurelius Victor Coll. Lives Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. 534 He did ride..in a Chariot drawn with two horses richly entrapped [L. phalerato equo]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018). < v.¹1531v.²1654
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