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† spiery Obs.
[f. spy n. or v. + -ery. Cf. espiery.]
The fact or condition of being a spy; the action of spying; espionage.
c1588Parsons in Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers 2nd Ser. (1875) 312 After I had read over the whole story..of his living in England,..his examinations, confessions, fictions, accusations, slanders, spiery, recantation and the like. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 132 This good Cardinall [was] most spitefully infamed by these three Priests (though al in one predicament of spierie if any were). |