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Sinon|ˈsaɪnən|
Also 6–7 Synon.
[The name of the Greek who induced the Trojans to bring the wooden horse into Troy (Virgil æneid ii. 57 sqq.).]
One who misleads by false tales; a perfidious person; a deceiver or betrayer.
In Peele's Jests viii. Dyce reads she-Sinon for she-sinnow of the old editions.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 483 b, You come to late gentle Synon with these fables and bables. 1592? Kyd Soliman & Pers. ii. i. 95 Heere comes the Synon to my simple heart: Ile frame my selfe to his dissembling art. 1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 38 They decipher him for another Solon, and the Synon of those times. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 133 The Ambassador easily descryed him to be a Synon, sent meerly to betray his credulity. 1807Collinson Thuanus 82 They are a company of Sinons, who watch opportunities of enriching them⁓selves by the ruin of others. 1818Scott Rob Roy iv, Osbaldistone inveighed..against the arts of these modern Sinons.
Hence ˈSinonism.
1864Daily Telegr. 29 Oct., Another ‘dodge’—another Sinonism, if that phrase sounds more agreeably to classical ears—is conceived. |