Word Meanings - DEFRAUDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to DEFRAUDATION)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• 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
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• FRAUDFUL
  Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• DEFRAUDMENT
  Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• DEFRAUDER
  One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• 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
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• FRAUDLESS
  Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
• TAKER
  One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
• 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
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• UNDERTAKING
  1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
• RETAKE
  1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• PAINSTAKER
  One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.
• UNDERTAKE
  1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.