Word Meanings - PITFALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.

INSNARER
One who insnares.
INSNARL
To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
CONTRADICTION
1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition
PITFALLING
Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
INSNARE
Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
PITFALL
A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
CONTRADICTIONAL
Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. Milton.
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
SELF-CONTRADICTION
The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.