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▪ I. cozenage1|ˈkʌz(ə)nɪdʒ|
Forms: 6 cooson-, 6–7 coson-, couson-, coosin-, cousin-, coosnage, 6–8 cosen-, 7 cosin-, coozen-, cousnage, 7–8 cousen-, couzen-, 8 coz'nage, 6– cozenage.
[f. cozen v. + -age. In form originally identical with cousinage, whence many word-plays. The most usual 17th c. spellings were cousenage, couzenage; cozenage has prevailed since c 1710.]
The practice or habit of cozening; cheating, deception, fraud; the fact of being cheated.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 48 Dissimulation, coosonage and guile. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 148 Whosoeuer shall vse any shifting, or cosenage..or any maner of false play. 1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 31 Iudas [cannot] swallow downe his cousenage and treason. 1679Dryden Troilus & Cr. v. ii, Forces us to pay for our own cozenage. 1709Steele Tatler No. 15 ⁋4 The Arts of his Mind, Cousenage and Falshood. 1821Byron Two Foscari iv. i, The old Doge..smiled on him With deadly cozenage. 1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3) I. 105 We observe many queer developments of the cozenage of language.
b. (with a and pl.) An act of cozening; a deception, a fraud; a result or embodiment of cozening, a piece of deception.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 27 a, In Playes, all coosonages..are most liuely anatomized. 1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. i. i, Then you shall see an exquisite coosnage. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iv. 186 One that for cousenages and forgeries had lost his eares. 1686J. Scott Chr. Life iii. (1696) 141 His Frauds and Cozenages appear like Specters at his Door. 1881W. C. Russell Ocean Free Lance III. i. 2 The spectral face..was no cozenage of the lad's fancy.
¶ In the following there are plays on or allusions to cousinage.
1600Rowland Lett. Humours Blood vii. 83 Brotherhood once in kindred bore the sway, But that dates out, and Coosnage hath the day. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. i. 1161 There is no kin, but Cousnage.
▪ II. cozenage2
obs. f. of cousinage. |