Word Meanings - COZENAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

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• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• FRAUDFUL
  Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
• COZENER
  One who cheats or defrauds.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• ARTIFICE
  1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth. 3. Artful or skillful contrivance. His plots were constructed
• COZEN
  To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he
• FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• FRAUDLESS
  Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
• FRAUD
  An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. 3. A trap or snare. To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud , an act, statement, or omission which operates
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• YAZOO FRAUD
  The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for 0,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo
• DEFRAUDMENT
  Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.
• DEFRAUDER
  One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.