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Quotation dates: 1456-1570, 1647
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Deceptioun, -cioun, n. Also: -tion(e, disceptio(u)n, discepcione. [ME. decepcioune (c 1430), -cion, OF. deception, L. dēceptio.] Deception, deceiving; deceit.1456 Hay I. 151/24.
For subtiltee of decepcioun1456 Ib. II. 88/23.
Decepciounis and fals cavillaciounis 1492 Acts Lords of Council 298/1.
For the discepcione of the kingis liegis be auld summondisa1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 613.
With fals deceptiounc1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 5/2.
All he dois for thi decepciounc1500-c1512 Dunb. ix. 125.
In fowll disceptionis c1500-c1512 Ib. xxi. 42.
In every hairt disceptioun breidis 1535 Stewart 23896.
For greit disceptioun all this thing he did1535 Ib. 27282.
That na disceptioun knew1560 Rolland Seven Sages 3066.
Falset, lesings, and deceptioun1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 10.attrib. 1647 Edinburgh Testaments LXIII. 2.
Ane littel pres for pressing of drogs. … item ane deceptione pott
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