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- noun Obsolete form of
Cathayan .
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Examples
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Warburton had both explained "Cataian" as a liar.]
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest
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My ladys a Cataian; we are politicians; Malvolios a Peg-a-Ramsey, and Three merry men be we.
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I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest o the town commended him for a true man.
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That _Cataian_ was a word of hatred or contempt is plain, but that it signified a _boaster_ or a _liar_ has not been proved.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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He therefore does not say, _I would not believe such a_ liar: for that he is a liar is yet to be made probable: but he says, _I would not believe such a Cataian on any testimony of his veracity_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Sir Toby, in _Twelfth Night_, says of the Lady Olivia to her maid, "thy Lady's a _Cataian_;" but there is no reason to think he means to call her _liar_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
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I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest
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I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest o 'the town commended him for a true man.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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