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† superchery Obs. exc. in F. form supercherie.|s(j)ʊˈpɜːtʃərɪ|, |sypɛrʃəri|
Also 6 -chierie, 7 -chiery, 7–8 -cherie.
[a. F. supercherie, ad. It. superchieria (var. soverchieria), f. superchio (var. soverchio) superfluous, excessive, = OSp., Pg. sobejo:—pop.L. *superculu-s, f. super over, above.]
1. An attack made upon one at a disadvantage; (a piece of) foul play.
1598Florio Ital. Dict., Soperchiaria, a superchierie, a wrong or iniury offred with ods or aduantage, also superfluitie, an affront. 1603― Montaigne ii. xxvii. 400 It is a Superchiery,..as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set vpon a man sore hurt. 1639Chas. I Declar. Tumults Scot. 380 By their supercherie violence and terrifications. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxi. (1674) 90 [The] swaggering companions, which he was accustomed to make use of in his supercheries and foul play to men of honour.
2. Trickery, deceit. Also with a and pl.
1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 168 All men know these Messengers [sc. the senses] are unfaithfull,..and that Nature hath given her [sc. the soul] an inward light, to free herself from their Superchery. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Arianism 3 He was not likely to succeed in that Supercherie, by Reason of..almost unavoidable Certainty of being discover'd immediately. 1781H. Walpole Let. to Mann 13 July, That I might not contribute..to any legal supercherie, I insisted [etc.]. [1811Gifford in M. Napier's Corr. (1879) 3 A little supercherie of which I have been guilty in filching a couple of lines from one of your quotations.] |