Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cosinage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cozenage .
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- noun Alternative form of
cozenage .
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Examples
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If some heretical persons and schismatical sectaries have at any time formerly been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude),
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You, quoth Panurge, do take always the matter at the worst, and continually, like another Davus, casteth in new disturbances and obstructions; nor ever yet did I know this old paltry Terpsion worthy of citation but in points only of cosenage and imposture.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You, quoth Panurge, do take always the matter at the worst, and continually, like another Davus, casteth in new disturbances and obstructions; nor ever yet did I know this old paltry Terpsion worthy of citation but in points only of cosenage and imposture.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If some heretical persons and schismatical sectaries have at any time formerly been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude),
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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King's Bench, to the Council, thinks there is not sufficient evidence to convict Bois Gaudre of cosenage or sorcery, but thinks he has committed a contempt worth punishment, in taking upon him to cure the King's Evil.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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_Endorsed: _ The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench is to call him for examination, to be indicted for cosenage.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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You, quoth Panurge, do take always the matter at the worst, and continually, like another Davus, casteth in new disturbances and obstructions; nor ever yet did I know this old paltry Terpsion worthy of citation but in points only of cosenage and imposture.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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If some heretical persons and schismatical sectaries have at any time formerly been so arrayed and clothed (though many have imputed such a kind of dress to cosenage, cheat, imposture, and an affectation of tyranny upon credulous minds of the rude multitude), I will nevertheless not blame them for it, nor in that point judge rashly or sinistrously of them.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
bilby commented on the word cosenage
What rack can fancy find so high?
Here we must court, and here engage,
Though in the other place we die.
O, 'tis torture all, and cosenage!
And which the harder is I cannot tell,
To hide true love, or make false love look well.
- Sir John Suckling, 'Loving and Beloved'.
February 7, 2009