inescare

inescare [CL] 1 to entice (animal) with bait. da verborum quoque exempla conjugationum qualitatibus collecta . ‥ sic honore, coloro, ‥ ~o, inundo Aldh. PR 121; illicere, illaqueare, decipere, defraudare, calvire, ~are Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 293; surripere, inducere, irretire, ~are Ib. 567; sanctus ‥ precepit nuntio ‥ primum piscem qui ~atus fuisset ‥ ad se reportare J. Furness Kentig. 36 p. 225; Walt. Angl. Fab. 46. 16 (v. fraudosus); et sicut accipiter / totus inescatur / super carnem rubeam / per quam revocatur Peckham Phil. 70. 2 to fill with food: a to bait (hook, also fig.); b to gorge, fatten (also fig.). a ~atis hamis cum ceteris artis piscatorie instrumentis Chr. Rams. 8; absentem socium nunquam rodas vel amicum. / versus eos fidi non fedus inescet amoris D. Bec. 618. b eternis dapibus animam, dum vivis, inesces D. Bec. 225; CathA (v. impinguare 3a). 3 to trap (person; also fig.). quo comperto Flandrenses hujusmodi relliquias sepius per loca ut eos ~arent, dispergebant Osb. Bawdsey clxx; D. Bec. 1773 (v. faenus a); vanis lactat fabulis / et, ut remorbescat / mentis dolor exulis, ut in mortem crescat, / infelicem osculis / sophisticis inescat P. Blois Carm. 15. 2. 12; Garl. Epith. VIII 100 (62) (v. hamare 1c); M. Par. Maj. V 347 (v. concupiscibilis 1a); erat itidem quartus in eodem infirmitorio languidus, qui non solum morti videbatur vicinus, sed quodammodo ~atus J. Furness Walth. 84.

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