† cauponationn.
Obsolete.
Petty dealing or trafficking; tricky or unfair dealing; mixing of liquors, adulteration.
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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > sordid or petty trading
huckstery1362
huckery1377
cauponation1531
huckstering1647
niggling1840
hucksterism1951
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration
cauponation1531
sophistication1541
adulterating1581
bastarding1583
bastardizing1598
sophisticating1611
adultery1616
adulteration1626
adulterism1639
bastardization1650
compassing1669
contagion1695
doctoring1805
1531 H. Latimer Let. Dec. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1331/1 Some woulde preache the truthe of God..without cauponation, and adulteration of the worde.
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Pref. 9 Falsification or (to vse the Apostles Wordes) cauponation and adulteration of Gods word.
1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage i. 2 A second use of Cauponation.
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 9 Expose their corruptions and cauponations of the Gospel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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