inescation
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
inescation (usually uncountable, plural inescations)
- (obsolete) The act of baiting; allurement.
- 1671, Henry Hallywell, A Discourse of the Excellency of Christianity:
- the Soul is enamour'd with these fading Beauties , and ensoared by the powerful Inescations of Sense
References edit
- “inescation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.