hocus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat.

   “1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117, […] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […]”

2. fiil To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them).

   “[…] but him they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing, i. e., clandestinely drugging the liquor of the victim with laudanum […]”

3. fiil To drug (liquor).

   “[…] I think the wine of them two Governors was—I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind.”

4. fiil To adulterate (food).

   “I had a healthy appetite, but the tradition was that all the food was unutterably bad, adulterated, hocussed.”

5. isim A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand.

   “I called freely for what was in the house, which was readily brought me; but when the servants beheld with what cele[r]ity, (Hocus like) and cleanly conveyance, I had disposed of what was before me, they verily believed in one week, I would cause a dearth in the house […]”

6. isim One who cheats or deceives.
7. isim Trick; trickery.

   “As in almost every Chapter of his Book, so in this Seventh, he has a new Hocus to carry on his old design […]”

8. isim Drugged liquor.