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inescates

inescates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inescate.

Meaning of inescate

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

Questions about inescates

What is inescates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Inescates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inescate.

Words near inescates in the dictionary

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

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