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captiously, adv.|ˈkæpʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a captious manner.
1539Bible (Great) Luke xi. 53 The lawears and the Pharyses began..capciously to aske him many thynges. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 239 Captiously asking often of Bradford a direct answer concerning Oaths. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 78 A fallacy in sophistry, that is, when a saying is captiously taken and turned to another sense. 1812J. & H. Smith Rej. Addr. x. (1873) 96 Objections..captiously urged. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxiii. (1878) 415 The father..had been behaving captiously and unjustly to his son. |