deceipt

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of deceit.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“[T]he two commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, whereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made conuertible, and which the latter men haue not without elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule⟳ of truth, becauſe it preuenteth deceipt; the other the rule⟳ of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, which we now obſerue.”

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