[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That entraps. Of questions, etc.: Adapted to entrap. Hence Entrappingly adv., so as to entrap.
1625. B. Jonson, Staple of N., V. iv. (1631), 71. I haue an entrapping question, or two more, To put vnto ’hem.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1738, I. 103. The hurt that might be done among the weaker by the intrapping Authority of great Names titled to false opinions.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (ed. 4), II. 89, note. Wrong terms and entrapping questions.
1857. W. Collins, Dead Secret (1861), 31. Innovating young recruits in the Church army might entrappingly open the Thirty-nine Articles under his very nose.
