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illaqueations

illaqueations is the plural of illaqueation.

Meaning of illaqueation

Noun

illaqueation (plural illaqueations)

  1. (obsolete) Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
    • And even that the Hebrews used this present way of hanging, by illaqueation or pendulous suffocation, in public justice and executions, the expressions and examples in Scripture conclude not, beyond good doubt.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21
  2. A snare; a trap.
  3. The process of pulling away an inverted eyelash by passing a loop of thread behind it.

Questions about illaqueations

What is illaqueations the plural of?
Illaqueations is the plural of illaqueation.

Words near illaqueations in the dictionary

  1. illaqueate
  2. illaqueated
  3. illaqueates
  4. illaqueating
  5. illaqueation
  6. illaqueations
  7. Illarionov
  8. Illarionova
  9. illation
  10. illations
  11. illative

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