Inviscate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Inviscate is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
Meaning
(transitive, obsolete) To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
Example Sentences
[…] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.
Word Forms
- inviscates
- inviscating
- inviscated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beglue, inveigle, entangle, agglutinate, glue, belime.
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