illaqueate means to grab; seize, or catch. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ILLAQUEATE — [Verb] To ensnare or entangle, as with a noose or trap. From Latin illaqueātus, the past participle of illaqueō ("to ensnare"), from in- ("in, into") + laqueō ("to snare"), from laqueus ("a noose, snare"). Unlike 'capture,' a blunt and general taking of possession, or 'entice,' a seduction toward action, to illaqueate is to bind with a cunning, constricting geometry. It is the sudden cinch of a hidden snare, the gossamer filament of the orb-weaver trembling at dusk, and the slow-dawning realization that one's own arguments have become the bars of a cage—the quiet horror of realizing one has been complicit in one's own binding.
verb
- To grab; seize, or catch.“c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.”