Definition of "trapans" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trapan. (verb)

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• "As for all other pretences, they are nothing but death and damnation dressed up in fair words and false shews; nothing but gins, and snares, and trapans for souls, contrived by the devil, and managed by such as the devil sets on work."
• "Pardon is made a decoy to the crime, and a possibility to be saved trapans into a certainty of being damned."
• "And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity."