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collusion|kəˈl(j)uːʒən|
Forms: 4 collucione, 5–6 col(l)usyone, -owne, -ion, 6 col(l)ucion, -sioun, 6– collusion.
[a. F. collusion, ad. L. collūsiōn-em a playing together, or into each other's hands, n. of action f. collūdĕre (see collude). The lit. meaning ‘a playing together’ (in Blount Glossogr. 1656) is not instanced in Lat. or Eng.]
1. gen. Secret agreement or understanding for purposes of trickery or fraud; underhand scheming or working with another; deceit, fraud, trickery.
c1397Chaucer Lack Stedf. 11 Yf he can by sume collucione [v.r. -usyon(e] Do his neyghtboure wronge. 1494Fabyan vii. 513 Without collusyon or fraude. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 634 Let us now leave the cloked collusion, that remayned in Fraunce, and returne to the open dissimulacion, which now appered in England. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. xv. (1840) 204 But for the collusion of the false Templars and Hospitallers with the infidels. 1702W. J. tr. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xli. 165 Two persons..who have..given us a Relation each of them apart, too much different from one another to suspect them of any Collusion. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. vii. 328 A cross examination, which can best expose error or wilful collusion in the evidence.
b. concr. with pl.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 116 Wee are blinded with the collusions of woemen. 1690Boyle Chr. Virtuoso i. 83 The subtil Cheats and Collusions of Impostors. 1829Southey All for Love iv, A plain collusion! a device Between the girl and youth!
2. spec. in Law. See quots. 1641 and 1809.
[1292Britton v. x. §14 A ceo purra il estre respoundu par replicacioun, qe ceo fut par fraude et collusioun. Marg. note, Judgment by collusion.] 1509–10Act. 1 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §1 Suerties therof founden withoute fraude or collusion. 1641Termes de la Ley 65 Collusion is where an Action is brought against another by his own agreement, if the Plaintife recover, then such recovery is called by Collusion. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Collusion is a deceitful agreement or contract between two or more persons, for the one to bring an action against the other, to some evil purpose, as to defraud a third person of his right..It is a thing the law abhors. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 75 The petitioner must..deny collusion.
†3. A trick, or ambiguity, in words or reasoning.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 235 The collusion, and fallax of thys reason, is in the insufficient nombring of partes. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 86 Prosonomasia a pleasant kind of collusion in words..by changing..or adding a letter or sillable. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 519 The resurrection of the body:..neither the Greek nor Latin ever delivered this Article in those terms, but in these, the resurrection of the flesh; because there may be ambiguity in the one..but there can be no collusion in the other. |