DECOY Copy link • DECOY 1. allicere; allectare; invitare et allectare, or allectare et invitare, all aliquem ad aliquid. illicere or pellicere aliquem in or ad aliquid: inescare (with a bait): to decoy in many ways, multa habere invitamenta. Vid: ALLURE. 2. As an act, allectatio. As a thing, invitamentum: incitamentum: illecebrae: a decoy bird, allector: illex (Plaut., Asin., 1, 3, 68). The place where wild ducks are decoyed, *locus anatibus capiendis factus, idoneus.