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[English deceitful;-ne .] The quality or state of being deceitful; a tendency to deceive; a deceitful or fraudulent habit. ".. the deceitfulne of riches,."- Matt . xiii. 22, dě-çēit-le , a . [Eng. deceit ; -le .] Free from deceit or deception; guilele , honest, true. should imply that some devil is not unclean; or de ceivable lusts, some lusts deceit le !"-Bp. Hall: Old Rel ., § 2. he that should call Satan an unclean devil decemvir 3. To deprive or take from stealthily, to rob. ". -Bacon . so deceive and rob them of their nourishment." 14. To while away, to cause to pa pleasantly. "These occupations oftentimes deceived the listle hour."-Words worth. ( Ogilvie .) B. In trans.: To cheat, to mislead, to cause to mistake, to delude. "Can those too flatter, and can Jove deceive?" Pope: Homer's Iliad, xii. 186. Crabb thus discriminates between to deceive, to delude , and to impose upon: "Falsehood is the leading feature in all these terms: they vary, however, in the circumstances of the action. To deceive is the most general of the three: it siguifies simply to produce a false conviction; the other terms are properly species of deceiving , including acce ory ideas. A deception does not always suppose a fault on the part of a person deceived , but a delusion does. A person is sometimes deceived in cases where decep tion is unavoidable; he is deluded through a volun tary blindne of the understanding. Decep tion is practiced by an individual on himself or others; a delusion is commonly practiced on one's self; an imposition is always practiced on another, Men deceive others from a variety motives; they always impose upon them for purposes of gain or selves with false pretexts and false confidence; they delude themselves with vain hopes and wishes." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) gratification of ambition. Men deceive them dě-çēived, pa.par.ora. [DECEIVE.] dě-çēiv-ēr, *de-ceyv-ar, *deceyver, *di eyver, s. [Eng. deceiv (e); -er.] One who deceives; a cheat. "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,.."- Titus i. 10. Crabb thus discriminates between deceiver and impostor: " Deceiver is a generic term; impostor specific: every impostor is a species of deceiver : the words have, however, a distinct use. The deceiver practices deception on individuals; the impostor only on the public at large. The false friend and the faithle lover are deceivers ; the a umed nobleman who practices frauds under his disguise, and the pretended prince who lays claim to a crown to which he was never born, are impostors." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) *dě-çēiv-er-le, s. [Eng. deceive ; -rie = -ry .] A course of deceitful conduct. dě-çēiv'-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DECEIVE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of misleading, cheating, or deluding; a deceit. a. [Eng. deceiv (e); -able.] †1. Capable of being deceived; open or subject to deceit. "Man was not only deceivable in his integrity, but the angels of light in all their clarity."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. *2. Deceitful, fraudulent, deceptious. there's something in't That is deceivable." ceitfulne , trickery, deception, duplicity. 3. A stratagem or artifice. "His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, But from deceit bred by nece ity." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . III . , iii. 3. II. Law : Any trick, device, plot, collusion, craft, or false representation intended to defraud another. "He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand."- Hos . xii. 7. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between deceit and deception : "A deceiver is full of deceit ; but a deception may be occasionally practiced by one who has not this habit of deceiving . Deceit is a characteristic of so base a nature, that those who have it -2 The . ii. 10. dě-çēiv-a-bly, adv . [Eng. deceivab (le); -ly .] In a deceivable or deceitful manner; deceitfully. *dě-çēiv'-ançe, *desceyvance, s. [O. Fr. decev- ance .] Deccit, deceitfulne . Robert de Brunne , 133. *dě-çēiv-ant, *dē-çēiv-aunt, a. [O. Fr. decev ant .] Deceitful. "That thou be nought deceivaunt ." Gower , i. 82. to take away, deceive: de -away, from, and capio A. Transitive : The practice of deceit springs altogether from a design, and that of the worst kind; but a deception to take.] may be practiced from indifferent, if not innocent motives, or may be occasioned even by inanimate objects. A person or a [course of] conduct is de- ceitful ; an appearance is deceptive ." IMG:content-1923.png:[blocks in formation] ings."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. de-çěm, a . [Lat.) A numerical adjective, ten, which is largely used in composition in English, with the meaning of ten , tenth , or tenfold . Dě-çěm-ber, s . [Lat.] 1. Originally : The tenth month of the year, the Roman year beginning in March, and not, as with us, in January. 2. Now : The twelfth and last month of the year, when the sun is at its greatest distance south of the equator. It contains thirty-one days. *Dě-çem-ber-ly, a . [Eng. December ; -ly .] Like December; wintry, cold. "The many bleak and decemberly nights of a seven years' widowhood."- Sterne : Tristram Shandy, v. 208.