entrap

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If you had told me yesterday, "There's one You needs must circumvent and practise with, Entrap by policies, if you would worm The truth out: and that one is—Mildred!"

From A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Browning, Robert

Entrap, en-trap′, v.t. to catch, as in a trap: to ensnare: to entangle.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Thus have you in the Temptations of our Lord, seen the principal of those Devices, which the Devil has to Entrap our Souls.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

They'd snare the moon, and catch the immortal sun With madder brown and pale vermilion, Entrap an English evening's magic hush .

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert