"hocus" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117,\n[…] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […]"
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          "text": "[…] but him they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing, i. e., clandestinely drugging the liquor of the victim with laudanum […]",
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          "text": "1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, “The Hocussing of Cigarette” in Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner, The Case of Miss Elliott, The Glasgow Mystery, Landsville, Pennsylvania: Coachwhip Publications, 2010, p. 243,\nThen I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery."
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          "ref": "1660, Don Pedro de Quixot, or in English the Right Reverend Hugh Peters, London: T. Smith",
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          "ref": "1668, Richard Head, chapter 14, in The English Rogue Described, in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant, London: Francis Kirkman, page 150",
          "text": "I called freely for what was in the house, which was readily brought me; but when the servants beheld with what cele[r]ity, (Hocus like) and cleanly conveyance, I had disposed of what was before me, they verily believed in one week, I would cause a dearth in the house […]",
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          "text": "1689, Roger L’Estrange (translator), Twenty-Two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, London: R. Bentley & R. Sare, p. 33,\n’Tis rather to exercise our Curiosity, and keep us from Idleness, or worse Diversions, as running mad after Buffoons, Dice, Fortune-tellers, and Hocus’s, &c."
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          "text": "1685, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, Before the University, May 3. 1685” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 523,\n[…] when thy Brother has lost all that ever he had, and lies languishing, and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, dost thou think thus to lick him whole again, only with thy Tongue? just like that old formal Hocus, who denyed a Beggar a farthing, and put him off with his Blessing."
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          "ref": "1687, Roger L’Estrange, chapter 6, in A Brief History of the Times, &c., London: Charles Brome, page 106",
          "text": "I have the Originals at This Present in my Hand, and there is the Paw of Tong and Otes so manifestly in the very Writing of them; as if they had not thought it worth the while to Disguise the Cheat. It was an Imposture, that their very Souls, Heads, Hearts, and Hands were All at Work upon; And the Forgery Vndeniable; only Tong Himself was the Master-Hocus.",
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          "ref": "1665, William Johnson, Agyrto-Mastix, London: Henry Brome, page 30",
          "text": "As in almost every Chapter of his Book, so in this Seventh, he has a new Hocus to carry on his old design […]",
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          "ref": "1693, Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money: A Satyr, London: Matthew Wotton, page 3",
          "text": "The Jugler and the Judge, too, may complain,\nFor both now strive to cheat the World in vain;\nIn slight and shift and Trick they both agree,\nBut a quick Eye may all their Hocus see:",
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          "text": "1871, Benjamin Jowett, letter to Florence Nightingale dated 29 September, 1871, cited in Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, London: Macmillan, 1913, Volume 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 223,\n[…] I do not agree with you in thinking that there are no difficulties, although the old difficulties, about the origin of evil &c., are generally a hocus of Theologians."
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          "ref": "1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 17, in Goldfinger, London: Jonathan Cape",
          "text": "He was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room, ‘All men are bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me. I don’t go for it. I’m in a separate league.’",
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        "(obsolete) Drugged liquor."
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          "ref": "1668, Richard Head, chapter 14, in The English Rogue Described, in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant, London: Francis Kirkman, page 150",
          "text": "I called freely for what was in the house, which was readily brought me; but when the servants beheld with what cele[r]ity, (Hocus like) and cleanly conveyance, I had disposed of what was before me, they verily believed in one week, I would cause a dearth in the house […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1689, Roger L’Estrange (translator), Twenty-Two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, London: R. Bentley & R. Sare, p. 33,\n’Tis rather to exercise our Curiosity, and keep us from Idleness, or worse Diversions, as running mad after Buffoons, Dice, Fortune-tellers, and Hocus’s, &c."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "magician",
          "magician"
        ],
        [
          "illusionist",
          "illusionist"
        ],
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          "sleight of hand",
          "sleight of hand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1685, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, Before the University, May 3. 1685” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 523,\n[…] when thy Brother has lost all that ever he had, and lies languishing, and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, dost thou think thus to lick him whole again, only with thy Tongue? just like that old formal Hocus, who denyed a Beggar a farthing, and put him off with his Blessing."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1687, Roger L’Estrange, chapter 6, in A Brief History of the Times, &c., London: Charles Brome, page 106",
          "text": "I have the Originals at This Present in my Hand, and there is the Paw of Tong and Otes so manifestly in the very Writing of them; as if they had not thought it worth the while to Disguise the Cheat. It was an Imposture, that their very Souls, Heads, Hearts, and Hands were All at Work upon; And the Forgery Vndeniable; only Tong Himself was the Master-Hocus.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "One who cheats or deceives."
      ],
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          "cheat"
        ],
        [
          "deceive",
          "deceive"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete) One who cheats or deceives."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1665, William Johnson, Agyrto-Mastix, London: Henry Brome, page 30",
          "text": "As in almost every Chapter of his Book, so in this Seventh, he has a new Hocus to carry on his old design […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1693, Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money: A Satyr, London: Matthew Wotton, page 3",
          "text": "The Jugler and the Judge, too, may complain,\nFor both now strive to cheat the World in vain;\nIn slight and shift and Trick they both agree,\nBut a quick Eye may all their Hocus see:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1871, Benjamin Jowett, letter to Florence Nightingale dated 29 September, 1871, cited in Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, London: Macmillan, 1913, Volume 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, p. 223,\n[…] I do not agree with you in thinking that there are no difficulties, although the old difficulties, about the origin of evil &c., are generally a hocus of Theologians."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 17, in Goldfinger, London: Jonathan Cape",
          "text": "He was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room, ‘All men are bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me. I don’t go for it. I’m in a separate league.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Trick; trickery."
      ],
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        [
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          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "trickery",
          "trickery"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Drugged liquor."
      ],
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        [
          "Drugged",
          "drugged"
        ],
        [
          "liquor",
          "liquor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Drugged liquor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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