entoil, v. arch.
(ɛnˈtɔɪl)
Also 6–7 entoyle, 7 intoyl.
[f. en-1 + toil n.2]
trans. To bring into toils or snares; to entrap, ensnare. Chiefly fig.
| 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. 104 None more The chace affected, or t'intoyle the Bore. 1875 Browning Inn Album 11 You entoil my legs, And welcome, for I like it. |
| fig. 1581 W. Clarke in Confer. iv. (1584) Ff iij b, Thus you are entoyled. 1590 Barrow & Greenwood in Confer. 46 The furder and more you striue against the truth, the furder and faster you entoyle your self. 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. 1652 Benlowes Theoph. xi. lxxix, Nere in the net of Slothfulnesse entoyl'd. 1820 Keats St. Agnes xxxii, So mused awhile, entoyled in woofed fantasies. 1879 Browning Ned Bratts 43 Mounting until its mesh Entoiled all heads in a fluster. |
Hence
enˈtoilment rare, the action of entoiling; the state of being entoiled.
| 1855 Browning Men & Women ii. Before, In torture and entoilment. |