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”).

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. [1602–1721]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

     Many such pranks are played by our Jesuits, sometimes in their own habits, sometimes in others, – to inescate and beguile young women.

• cesanite, cineaste