decipiency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
decipiency (uncountable)
- (obsolete) hallucination or deception.
- 1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:
- […] mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency; […] and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.
References[edit]
- “decipiency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.