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inescate

inescate verb: to allure; to lay a bait for.

Verb

inescate (third-person singular simple present inescates, present participle inescating, simple past and past participle inescated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To allure; to lay a bait for.
    • Many such pranks are played by our Jesuits, sometimes in their own habits, sometimes in others, – to inescate and beguile young women.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Forms of inescate

third-person singular presentinescates
present participleinescating
past participleinescated
pastinescated

Origin of inescate

First attested in 1602; borrowed from Latin inēscātus, perfect passive participle of inēscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + ēsca (“a bait”).

Questions about inescate

What does inescate mean?
Inescate means to allure; to lay a bait for.
What part of speech is inescate?
Inescate is a verb.
What is the past tense of inescate?
The past tense of inescate is inescated.

Words near inescate in the dictionary

  1. inescapability
  2. inescapable
  3. inescapableness
  4. inescapably
  5. inescapeable
  6. inescate
  7. inescated
  8. inescates
  9. inescating
  10. inescation
  11. inescations

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