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单词 to play hocus-pocus
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to play hocus-pocus
b. to play hocus-pocus, to play the juggler, to juggle. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > practise trickery [verb (intransitive)]
triflec1305
legerdemain1483
to practise on (also upon) —1600
to play hocus-pocus1659
palm1686
trick1698
shab1755
kid1811
lark1813
prank1826
mank1861
cod1874
1659 London Chanticleers ix, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 343 Thou hast played hocus-pocus with me, I think.
1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking I. xii. 25 Our Author is playing Hocus Pocus in the very Similitude he takes from that Juggler.
extracted from hocus-pocusn.adj.adv.
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