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pellicere

pellicere [CL] 1 to entice, captivate, or deceive. cum inexpertos quosque ad vitae pericula pellexerint [gl.: i. deciperint, þonne hi bepæcaþ] Aldh. VirgP 40; tua me pellexit honestis / scilicet indulcanda modis, odisque canoris, / caelo vita micans Frith. 26; 993 Adam ‥ versipellis ‥ tergiversatione viraginis pellectus CD 684; huic rex injunxerat negotium ut Elfridam ‥ que forma sui oculos relatorum pellexerat W. Malm. GR II 157; si eger quispiam salutem vehementer exoptet, sed ob presentem molestiam ‥ adustionem exhorreat, ac presenti quadam suavitate pellectus olei fomenta requirat Ailr. Spec. Car. I 22 p. 525; a pelle ~io ‥ decipere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 416; a corde alterius secretum elicit ut sic ~iat Neckam NR I 19; quos ego crebris litteris ut tue recte valitudinis me certiorem redderent rogavi, pellexi, flagitavi Free Ep. 56. 2 (in gl., understood as noun). begylinge, decepcio, decipula, dolus fraus ~io, frustracio CathA; a falsed, falsitas, fraus arte fit, fraudulencia, dolus ‥ pellacia, ~io, versucia Ib..

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