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deception|dɪˈsɛpʃən|
Also 6 dis-.
[a. F. déception (13th c. in Hatzf.), ad. L. dēceptiōn-em, n. of action from dēcipĕre to deceive.]
1. The action of deceiving or cheating.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 76 Hope dispeyred, a gwerdonles gwerdone; Trusty disceyte, feythful decepcioune. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes F ij, Þt ben harme-doers & loveth falshode and desepcion. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxvi. 95 What grete decepcions and iniuries she ymagyneth ayenst the. c1500Doctr. Gd. Servauntes in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 4 Fle dysceyte, gyle, and decepcyon. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 126 For greit disceptioun all this thing he did. a1716South (J.), All deception is a misapplying of those signs which..were made the means of mens signifying or conveying their thoughts. 1794S. Williams Vermont 170 He was accustomed to no falsehood or deception. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids i. 45 These plants exist by an organized system of deception.
b. The fact or condition of being deceived.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. iv. 113 Hee is surely greedy of delusion, and will hardly avoide deception. 1769Junius Lett. xxxi. 144 The public has fallen into the deception. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 118 Deception—a principal ingredient in happiness.
2. That which deceives; a piece of trickery; a cheat, sham.
1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xx, There is some deception, some trick. 1833Ritchie Wand. Loire 176 Launching the anathemas of what we call taste against so paltry a deception. 1841Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. viii. 130 There was no background to form a phantasmagoria deception.
Hence deˈceptionist, one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler.
1883Society 20 Jan. 22/1 ‘The American Deceptionist’..with his marvellous juggling tricks. |