单词 | circumvention |
释义 | circumventionn. 1. The action of circumventing; overreaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving swikingc1000 blindfolding?c1225 deceivancec1330 trechettingc1330 jugglingc1380 beguilingc1400 deceivingc1400 fagec1400 delusionc1420 sophisticationc1450 circumvention1534 illudinga1547 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 crossing1592 tricking1595 wiling?a1600 circumventing1603 practice1622 cheat1641 deluding1645 underdealing1649 amusement1658 conveyancing1676 bubbling1700 jockeyshipa1763 overreachinga1774 jockeying1779 beguilement1805 gaggery1819 trickstering1821 Jewing1842 wool-pulling1843 rigging1846 hoodwinking1858 old soldierism1866 old soldiering1867 fiddling1884 gold-bricking1901 wangling1911 finagling1926 hyping1968 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > circumventing or overreaching circumvention1534 circumventing1603 outwitting1649 overreachinga1774 Jewing1842 outwittal1875 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1280/1 Destroied, by the deceite and circumuencion of the false wilye diuel. 1603 Contin. Adv. Don Sebastian in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 374 [He] discovered unto me certain plots and circumventions. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxiv. 143 Widow Wadman..has used every art and circumvention of woman to outwit him. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iii. 77 As if stratagem and circumvention were the ..staple of political commerce. 2. elliptical. = the means of circumvention; circumvention ready, or in operation. (Johnson suggested ‘Prevention, preoccupation’.) ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ii. 6 What euer haue bin thought one in this State That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome Had circumuention ? View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1534 |
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