Definition of Cozenage. Meaning of Cozenage. Synonyms of Cozenage

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Definition of Cozenage

Cozenage
Cozenage Coz"en*age (-[asl]j), n. [See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage.] The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. --Shak.

Meaning of Cozenage from wikipedia

- literature started in 1591 with Robert Greene's series of five pamphlets on cozenage and coney-catching. These were continued by other writers, including Thomas...
- English steoran (steer) meaning "to govern"; as a court used to punish cozenage (in Latin: crimen stellionatus); or that the chamber was full of windows...
- Detection of Dice Play (1552) and Robert Greene's A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1592). Criminal activity broke gender boundaries and both men and women...
- Man— "Land of Better Fortune" (「開運の国」, "Kaiun no Kuni") —The Fifth "C", Cozenage— "Land of Posthumous Works" (「遺作の国」, "Isaku no Kuni") —Write or Die— "Land...
- pronounce, decree and declare the said Processes and Sentences full of cozenage, iniquity, inconsequences, and manifest errors, in fact as well as in law...
- him, and not inclined to be made use of in ordinary dissimulation and cozenage. On visiting the Commissioners, he found them apparently pleased that the...