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English
Etymology
From en- + toil.
Verb
entoil (third-person singular simple present entoils, present participle entoiling, simple past and past participle entoiled)
- To capture with toils or nets; to ensnare.
1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXXII, page 99:It seem'd he never, never could redeem, / From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; / So mus'd awhile, entoiled in woofed phantasies.
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