† fallaxn.
Obsolete.
= fallacy n. (in various senses).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
swikec893
swikedomc893
dwalec950
braida1000
falsec1000
flerdc1000
swikelnessa1023
fakenOE
chuffingc1175
fikenungc1175
bipechingc1200
treachery?c1225
falseshipc1230
guilec1230
telingc1230
swikeheada1250
craftc1275
felony1297
wrench1297
deceitc1300
gabc1300
guiling13..
guilery1303
quaintisec1325
wrenk1338
beswiking1340
falsehood1340
abetc1350
wissing1357
wilec1374
faitery1377
faiting1377
tregetryc1380
fallacec1384
trainc1390
coverture1393
facrere1393
ficklenessc1397
falsagea1400
tregeta1400
abusionc1405
blearingc1405
deceptionc1430
mean?c1430
tricotc1430
obreption1465
fallacy1481
japery1496
gauderya1529
fallax1530
conveyance1531
legerdemain1532
dole1538
trompe1547
joukery1562
convoyance1578
forgery1582
abetment1586
outreaching1587
chicanery1589
falsery1594
falsity1603
fubbery1604
renaldry1612
supercherie1621
circumduction1623
fobbinga1627
dice-play1633
beguile1637
fallaxitya1641
ingannation1646
hocus1652
renardism1661
dodgerya1670
knapping1671
trap1681
joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
mamaguy1971
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 > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun]
falseness1303
falselekea1350
untrothc1386
falsehooda1400
untruth1439
mensongec1450
fallax1530
falsity1579
fallacy1590
impropriety1611
improperness1612
wrongc1620
fallaciousness1644
fallacity1648
untrueness1652
unsubstantiality1838
unsubstantialness1860
incorrectitude1898
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 218/2 Fallaxe or desceyt, falace.
1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. xxiii They make a fallax and a deceytfull argumente in the mysuse of these termes.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 750/1 I answer to thargument, whych I do deny as a fallax.
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) viii. 104 That ever-betraying Fallax of undervaluing our enemies.
1669 J. Gadbury in S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. sig. c2v/1 Who to such Sophistry their Reason bow, Lift Fallax up, and set the Truth below.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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