illaqueation

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English

Etymology

From Latin illaqueare +‎ -ation.

Noun

illaqueation (plural illaqueations)

  1. (obsolete) Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21:
      And even that the Hebrews used this present way of hanging, by illaqueation or pendulous suffocation, in public justice and executions, the expressions and examples in Scripture conclude not, beyond good doubt.
  2. A snare; a trap.
  3. The process of pulling away an inverted eyelash by passing a loop of thread behind it.

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