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entice

verb
/ɪnˈtaɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).

  1. derived from *teih₁-✻
  2. derived from *tītjō✻
  3. derived from enticier
  4. inherited from enticen

Definitions

  1. To lure

    To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

    • I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at entice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at entice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at entice

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA