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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
deceive .
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Examples
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This gave me Occasion to reflect how subject we are to be deceiv'd by Appearances, and what great Precaution we ought to use before we believe, censure, or condemn Things, by the exterior or first Sight; whereas the other Side of the Curtain often shews
Exilius 2008
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Though still deceiv'd, some stranger's near approach.
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Affections, all at once you find you have been deceiv'd.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 January 1782, "I hope . . ." 1973
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But the weak voice deceiv'd their gasping throats.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The happy day approach'd; nor are my hopes deceiv'd.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Naturalists must certainly be deceiv'd, in taking some Parts of the
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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This answer of hers, as plausible as it seem'd, he was sure was altogether False; and therefore taking her by the Shoulder, he with a stern and angry Countenance said, No, thou Disloyal Strumpet: it is not such a poor Excuse as this shall serve thy Turn; I am not to be deceiv'd; I saw that Lustful Leacher walking at the Door for whom this
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Well, my Lord, and did not the pleasure of being undeceiv'd overpay all the pain which you had been deceiv'd into?
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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Is happy indeed if 'twas never deceiv'd in the adjustment of individual differences [idividual]
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Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man falls deceiv'd, in which the first compound shows a conflict of pitch and stress ( 'self' having a pitch-accent, but occurring in an unstressed part of the line), while the second shows pitch taking the place of stress.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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