v. arch. Also 6–7 entoyle, 7 intoyl. [f. EN-1 + TOIL sb.2] trans. To bring into toils or snares; to entrap, ensnare. Chiefly fig.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., V. (1626), 104.

          I, of Achaia once a Nymph: none more
The chace affected, or t’intoyle the Bore.

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1875.  Browning, Inn Album, 11. You entoil my legs, And welcome, for I like it.

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  fig.  1581.  W. Clarke, in Confer., IV. (1584), Ff iij b. Thus you are entoyled.

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1590.  Barrow & Greenwood, in Confer., 46. The furder and more you striue against the truth, the furder and faster you entoyle your self.

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a. 1626.  Bacon, New Atl. (1650), 13. Entoyled both their Navy, and their Campe, with a greater Power than theirs, both by Sea and Land.

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1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., XI. lxxix. Nere in the net of Slothfulnesse entoyl’d.

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1820.  Keats, St. Agnes, xxxii. So mused awhile, entoyled in woofed fantasies.

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1879.  Browning, Ned Bratts, 43. Mounting until its mesh Entoiled all heads in a fluster.

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  Hence Entoilment. rare. The action of entoiling; the state of being entoiled.

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1855.  Browning, Men & Wom., II. Before, ii. 15. In torture and entoilment?

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