Editing Entrapment (section)

==Etymology and usage==
The word entrapment, from the verb "to [[wikt:entrap|entrap]]", meaning to catch in a trap, was first used in this sense in 1899<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=entrapment&allowed_in_frame=0|title=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref> in the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit]] case of ''People v Braisted''.<ref>''People v Braisted'' (13 Colo. App. 532, 58 Pac. 796)</ref><ref>[http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2073&context=dlj THE DEFENCE OF ENTRAPMENT IN THE FEDERAL COURTS LESTER B. ORFIELD]</ref>

The 1828 edition of [[Webster's Dictionary|Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language]] defines entrap as:

{{quote|To catch as in a trap; to insnare [sic]; ''used chiefly or wholly in a figurative sense''. To catch by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to entangle; to catch or involve in contraindications; in short, to involve in any difficulties from which an escape is not easy or possible. We are ''entrapped'' by the devices of evil men. We are sometimes ''entrapped'' in our own words.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Noah Webster|title=The American Dictionary of the English Language|date=1985|publisher=The Foundation for American Christian Education|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-0-912498-03-4|page=ENT|edition=Fourth}}</ref>}}