| 单词 | goose-trap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoose-trap goose-trap n. a trap for a ‘goose’, a quibble, sophism; (also) U.S. a swindle. 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 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. x. 212 And what vse is there of these goose-traps [L. tricis illis et verborum laqueis]? 1799 Aurora (Philadelphia) 31 Jan. The gulls and goose-traps that have been sported for some time past all come from the shop in which the Washington Lottery wheels remain undrawn, and where a new goose-trap, the Amuskeag canal, was some time since hammered out. < as lemmas |
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