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Webster 1913 Edition
Cozen
Coz′en
(k?z′’n)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cozened
(-’nd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cozening
(-’n-?ng)
. ] [From
cousin
, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner
.] To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
He had
cozened
the world by fine phrases. Macaulay.
Children may be
cozened
into a knowledge of the letters. Locke.
Goring loved no man so well but that he would
and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.
cozen
him,and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.
Clarendon.
Coz′en
,Verb.
I.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Some cogging,
cozening
slave. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Cozen
COZEN
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cheat; to defraud.He that suffers a government to be abused by carelessness and neglect, does the same thing with him that corruptly sets himself to cozen it.
2.
To deceive; to beguile.Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters.