A growing assortment of words and definitions used in the Early Modern era. See the Guide for more information.
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Illaqueate
To ensnare, entangle, as in a noose; Latin in + laqueare, to snare; laqueus, noose, net; remembered in the goodly Dr. Laqueur. See laqueat. Hence also illaqueate, ensnared; illaqueation; illaqueable, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in his LITERARY REMAINS, collected 1834), says: Let not . . . his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
Pacate
To make peaceful. As a verb, this is rare; in the 17th century pacate was used as an adjective meaning pacified, tranquil: a pacate, humble, self-denying mind. Latin pacare, pacatus, to pacify; pacem, peace. Hence also pacative, calming, sedative; pacation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge remarked, in his essay ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH AND STATE (1830) : Reasonable men are easily satisfied; would they were as numerous as they are pacable!
Silly
See seel. Silly is used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (THE ANCIENT MARINER, 1798) to mean idle: The silly buckets on the deck were long without rainwater.
