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Definition of Captiously

Captiously
Captiously Cap"tious*ly, adv. In a captious manner.

Meaning of Captiously from wikipedia

- appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. "Guardian Style Guide", The Guardian, London, 19 December 2008...
- ; mora "delay, any duration of time" ⇒ mérmeros "baneful, mischievous; captious, fastidious"; mérimna "care, thought; anxious mind"; mártus, márturos "witness"...
- Irreligious sentiments, drunken mockery, anticlerical expressions, were all captiously classified by the inquisitors (or by those who denounced the cases) as...
- party but to Rockefeller personally. In rapid succession, Mr. Rockefeller captiously took over most of the functions of the state chairman and in a matter...
- says Socrates Scholasticus, these tore the church to pieces by their captious subtilties. Eudoxius consecrated his friend Eunomius to the see of Cyzicus;...
- potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… [241] The Mortuary 1971 The Mortuary...
- Everything, of course, turns out quite happily, except, perhaps, for those captious souls who regard religion as an adult matter." The Bells of St. Mary's...
- France. Unigenitus censured 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel as: false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious...
- liberal, nothing humane in this style of judging; it is altogether petty, captious, and literal." With all this, he is retrograde and "would go back to the...
- indicates that, "The objections of Caius are . . . those of a somewhat captious critic, and indicates little breadth of scriptural learning or of eschatological...