allectation
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin allectatio, allectationis.
Noun
editallectation (countable and uncountable, plural allectations)
- (obsolete) enticement; allurement
- 1686, John Cosin, Two Letters […] :
- I am to add , that with such allectation they were Tuned by the Musick-masters
References
edit- “allectation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.