Citations:chiaused
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English citations of chiaused
Verb
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- 1659, James Shirley, “Honoria and Mammon”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The dramatic works and poems of James Shirley, volume 6, London: Murray, published 1833, →OCLC, page 28:
- What think you?—Chiaus'd by a scholar!
- 1893, Mynors Bright, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editors, The diary of Samuel Pepys, for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, volume 5, New York: G. E. Groscup, →OCLC, pages 117–118, note 2:
- The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to: […]