inescate

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 10
Words With Friends: 12
Letters: 8

Definition of inescate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(obsolete, transitive)To allure; to lay a bait for.

“Many such pranks are played by our Jesuits, sometimes in their own habits, sometimes in others, – to inescate and beguile young women.”

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Etymology

First attested in 1602; borrowed from Latin inēscātus, perfect passive participle of inēscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + ēsca (“a bait”).

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