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Meaning of inviscate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

inviscated inviscates inviscating inviscerate invisibilised invisibilises