illecebration

English

Etymology

See illecebrous.

Pronunciation

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Noun

illecebration (plural illecebrations)

1. (formal, obsolete, rare) allurement
   • 1705, Thomas Brown, A Legacy for the Ladies:

     […] the great Familiarity of pleasant Illecebrations, the great continual Frequentations of Balls and Feasts […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “illecebration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)