[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of entrapping; the condition of being entrapped or caught by artifice.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, IV. lxxx. Northumberland … given to understand Of some entrapment by conspiracy, Gets into Wales.
1613. Sherley, Trav. Persia, 38. His first victory would rather haue proued a snare to his intrapment.
1812. Examiner, 27 Sept., 618–9. HORACE therefore says,—For whose entrapment are you thus affecting no intention of entrapping?
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., IV. xv. Appealing from the irregular entrapment of this mode of examination.
1875. Darwin, Insectiv. Pl., xvii. 408. She also witnessed the entrapment of various minute crustaceans.
