insnare
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insnare (third-person singular simple present insnares, present participle insnaring, simple past and past participle insnared)
- Alternative spelling of ensnare
- 1730, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 160, lines 1289–1292:
- Let theſe / Inſnare the vvretched in the toils of lavv, / Fomenting diſcord, and perplexing right, / An iron race!