单词 | illaqueation |
释义 | † illaqueationn. Obsolete. 1. The action of catching or entangling in a noose or snare; entrapping or entangling in argument; the condition of being entangled or ensnared. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > [noun] cavillation138. hafting1519 brabbling1532 brabblementa1563 chicanery1589 caption1605 illaqueation1605 argutation1641 chicane1681 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Oo2v The more subtile fourmes of Sophismes, and Illaqueations . View more context for this quotation 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xi. 361 The word ἀπήγξατο..doth not onely signifie suspension, or pendelous illaqueation..but also suffocation, strangulation or interception of breath. View more context for this quotation 1699 J. Evelyn Let. 10 Nov. in Diary & Corr. (1852) 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’ (Johnson). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1605 |
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