illaqueate

First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin illaqueātus, perfect passive participle of illaqueō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + laqueō (“to insnare”), from laqueus (“a noose, snare”).

illaqueate (third-person singular simple present illaqueates, present participle illaqueating, simple past and past participle illaqueated)

1. (archaic) To grab; seize, or catch.
   • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor

     Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.

2. (obsolete) past participle of illaqueate

• “illaqueate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

illaqueāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of illaqueō