单词 | to play hocus-pocus |
释义 | > as lemmasto play hocus-pocus ΘΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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