Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To insnare; catch by stratagem.
- noun A snare; trap.
- noun Same as
trapanner .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d
trepan . - transitive verb To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
ensnare ; tocatch bystratagem ; toentrap ; totrepan .
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Examples
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And the day it's well return'd again. trapan: injure treacherously, fey: marked by fate, boun: go, stancheon: iron bar, loup: leap, twin: part
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He can trapan a Jephthah into a vow and solemn oath, and then bind him, under fear of perjury, to perform it by an horrid and unhuman murder.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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Is it possible for him, who is love itself, to be cruel, harsh, and inexorable; to sit in heaven contriving gins and snares to trapan and ruin his poor creatures; and then to delight himself in the cries of the damned, and the woful estate of tormented souls?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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