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Webster 1913 Edition

Inescate

In-es′cate

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
inescatus
, p. p. of
inescare
;
in-
in +
esca
bait.]
To allure; to lay a bait for.
[Obs.]
To
inescate
and beguile young women!
Burton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inescate

INES'CATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. inesco.] To bait; to lay a bait for.

Definition 2024

inescate

inescate

English

Verb

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.
    • 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.

Etymology

From Latin inescatus, past participle of inescare, from in- ‎(“in”) + esca ‎(“bait”).

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