illaqueable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin illaqueō (“I entrap”) + -able.
Adjective
editillaqueable (comparative more illaqueable, superlative most illaqueable)
- (obsolete, nonce word) Capable of being ensnared or entrapped.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- As concerning the infamous and diabolical magic, he that would know whether or no a philosopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it
References
edit“illaqueable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.