单词 | to chicane away |
释义 | > as lemmasto chicane away ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection > treat captiously [verb (transitive)] > affect by chicanery chicane1725 to chicane away1766 1766 J. Tucker Serm. Christ-Church, London 5 If there be a Truth in Morals not to be controverted, or chicaned away, this is one. 1777 E. Burke Addr. to King Jan. in Writings & Speeches (1996) III. 268 The very possibility of Public Agency..has been evaded and chicaned away. 1855 Westm. Rev. Jan. 212 There is in his explanations none of the legal quibbling by which many of the commentators chicane away the meaning of an adverse phrase. < as lemmas |
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