单词 | collusion |
释义 | collusionn. 1. a. gen. Secret agreement or understanding for purposes of trickery or fraud; underhand scheming or working with another; deceit, fraud, trickery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] covin1393 collusionc1397 practicea1513 insidiation1612 intrigue1668 intriguing1801 crayfishing1931 c1397 G. Chaucer Lack Stedf. 11 Yf he can by sume collucione [v.r. -usyon(e] Do his neyghtboure wronge. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxxviii Without collusyon or fraude. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 634 Let vs now leaue the cloked collusion, that remayned in Fraunce, and returne to the open dissimulacion, which now appered in England. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xv. 194 But for the collusion of the false Templars and Hospitallers with the Infidels. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xli. 165 Two persons..who have..given us a Relation each of them apart, too much different from one another to suspect them of any Collusion. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. vii. 259 A cross-examination, which can best expose error or wilful collusion in the evidence. b. concrete with plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] > instance practicea1513 collusion1578 insidiation1612 cabal1656 intrigue1668 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 43v We are blynded, with the collusions of woemen. 1690 R. Boyle Christian Virtuoso i. 83 The subtil Cheats and Collusions of Impostors. 1829 R. Southey All for Love iv. 38 A plain collusion! a device Between the girl and youth! 2. spec. in Law. See quots. 1641, 1809. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > conspiracy collusion1509 conspiracy1863 1292 Britton v. x. §14 A ceo purra il estre respoundu par replicacioun, qe ceo fut par fraude et collusioun. Marg. note, Judgment by collusion.] 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 20 §1 Suerties therof founden withoute fraude or collusion. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 65 Collusion is where an Action is brought against another by his own agreement, if the Plaintife recover, then such recovery is called by Collusion. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Collusion is a deceitful agreement or contract between two or more persons, for the one to bring an action against the other, to some evil purpose, as to defraud a third person of his right..It is a thing the law abhors. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 75 The petitioner must..deny collusion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of sophismc1350 fallacea1393 fallation1483 sophisticationa1492 fallax1530 fallacy1532 shift1545 elench1570 collusion1581 goose-trap1610 voidance1621 salvea1628 sophistry1673 wriggle1675 Jesuitism1749 special pleader1867 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > deliberate > instance collusion1581 weasel word1900 weasel1959 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 235 The collusion, and fallax of thys reason, is in the insufficient nombring of partes. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Prosonomasia, a pleasant kinde of collusion in words..by chaunging..or adding a letter or sillable. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 519 The resurrection of the body:..neither the Greek nor Latin ever delivered this Article in those terms, but in these, the resurrection of the flesh; because there may be ambiguity in the one..but there can be no collusion in the other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1397 |
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