deceipt

English

Noun

deceipt (plural deceipts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of deceit
    • 1603 (date written), [Francis] Bacon, “Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature; with the Annotations of Hermes Stella. Chapter XI. The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being the 11th in Order, a Part thereof.”, in Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by [John Lockyer], Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, published 1734, →OCLC, page 411:
      [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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