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单词 to chicane away
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to chicane away
3. transitive. to chicane away: to get rid of (an objection, counter-argument, etc.) by chicanery; to quibble about (something) to the point of redundancy. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)] > affect by chicanery
chicane1725
to chicane away1766
1766 J. Tucker Serm. Christ-Church, London 5 If there be a Truth in Morals not to be controverted, or chicaned away, this is one.
1777 E. Burke Addr. to King Jan. in Writings & Speeches (1996) III. 268 The very possibility of Public Agency..has been evaded and chicaned away.
1855 Westm. Rev. Jan. 212 There is in his explanations none of the legal quibbling by which many of the commentators chicane away the meaning of an adverse phrase.
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