Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
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- noun Obsolete form of
cozening .
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Examples
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And now thou art so proud with thy filching and cosening art!
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Take a wise fellow's counsel, Fraud: leave thy cosening and filching.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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If in a weaver's house, with his great cosening in weaving.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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No, a fox ferret him! for if I could find him, I would make him fast enough for cosening me of ten shillings for certain copper buttons and rings.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Which used such gross cosening, as you would wonder to hear.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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And in those who endeavoured to hide what they have filched from others, and make it their owne, it is first a manifest note of injustice, then a plaine argument of cowardlinesse; who having nothing of any worth in themselves to make show of, will yet under the countenance of others sufficiencie goe about to make a faire offer: Moreover (oh great foolishnesse) to seek by such cosening [Footnote: Cheating.] tricks to forestall the ignorant approbation of the common sort, nothing fearing to discover their ignorance to men of understanding (whose praise only is of value) who will soone trace out such borrowed ware.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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