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lenocinate

lenocinate verb: to entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).

Verb

lenocinate (third-person singular simple present lenocinates, present participle lenocinating, simple past and past participle lenocinated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).
    • Cardinall Bellarmyne he abuseth more grosly, for he calleth him, a Cardinal parasite, the lenocinating pander of the whore of Babylon, […]1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow
    • Rolling eyes, wandering looks, out-stretched necks, fleering smiles, and lenocinating glances, disparage the most modest […]1844, Samuel Annesley, The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate … Being Divers Sermons, Preached A.D. 1659-1689 by Several Ministers, page 508

Forms of lenocinate

third-person singular presentlenocinates
present participlelenocinating
past participlelenocinated
pastlenocinated

Origin of lenocinate

See lenocinant.

Questions about lenocinate

What does lenocinate mean?
Lenocinate means to entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).
What part of speech is lenocinate?
Lenocinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of lenocinate?
The past tense of lenocinate is lenocinated.

Words near lenocinate in the dictionary

  1. leno
  2. Lenobel
  3. Lenoble
  4. lenoblite
  5. lenocinant
  6. lenocinate
  7. lenocinating
  8. lenocinium
  9. lenograstim
  10. lenoi
  11. Lenoir

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