Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take in a snare; allure; entrap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means.
- transitive verb To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
ensnare .
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Examples
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On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrĂ¢_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.
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Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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-- Many a trapp is set to insnare the feet of youth.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision
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_ Pray, Madam, do not thus suspend my doubtful Soul; but if you do design to insnare my Life, speak, speak freely: Or if the Constable be at the Door, let him shew his Staff of Authority, perhaps I may corrupt him with a Bribe.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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"Those are the very wiles by which doll-faced stage women insnare our most desirable young men."
Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress George Randolph Chester 1896
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"My enemy maun sen 'for an ootlandish speech and a heathen tongue to insnare ane o' the brethren!"
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Mrs. Arnot did not intend that she should brood over Haldane until her vivid imagination should weave a net out of his misfortunes which might insnare her heart.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Tresses fair, insnare, 326. like the morn, 246. whitening lip and fading, 636.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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