Definition of "insnare" [in•snare]

• Variant of ensnare. (verb)

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• "Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech."
• "-- Many a trapp is set to insnare the feet of youth."
• "On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument."