cozening

cozening (k[schwa]z-[schwa]n-ing). Hist. A deceitful practice; the offense of cheating, or fraudulent dealing. — Also spelled cosening. Cf. STELLIONATUS.

“Cosening is an offence unnamed, whereby any thing is done guilefully in or out of contracts, which cannot be fitly termed by any speciall name. It is called stellionatus in the civile law….” John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).

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