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To trick or mislead.

You have betrayed and deceived everybody.

I deceived only the birds, but you have deceived me, a painter.

But perhaps she deceived you.

But the maps deceived Grant and Sherman as they had previously deceived Rosecrans.

Why were thousands of inhabitants deceived into believing that Moscow would not be given up--and thereby ruined?

I think she's wrong; you deceived one another, and you are both going to have to forgive to have a future.

The curious imbroglio deceived royalists and republicans alike.

The advantage to the animal of this imitation of surrounding objects is that it escapes the pursuit of (say) a bird which would, were it not deceived by the resemblance, attack and eat the caterpillar.

He was so skilled in Latin verse that a comedy he wrote in his twentieth year, entitled Philodoxius, deceived the younger Aldus, who edited and published it as the genuine work of Lepidus.

As the old serpent deceived man of old, so shall it be again.

But the force sent in pursuit of him was small, and the British government was not deceived into weakening its hold on the Channel.

Subjects and treatment alike are inspired by the passing fashion of an age which had deceived itself into believing that it was living and moving in the spirit of classical antiquity.

Deceived by the forgeries of Otto von Pack, he believed in the existence of a conspiracy to crush the reformers, and was only restrained from attacking his enemies by the influence of John of Saxony and Luther.

As on former occasions the representatives of the East were at first deceived by false representations; they were betrayed into recognition of papal supremacy, and tricked into signing what could afterwards be represented as a submission to Western doctrine.

Henry, if much courted, was much deceived by his contemporaries.

But, though she noticed it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself as young people often do.

The enemy believed that Cadorna had been deceived by demonstrations made in the Trentino, and their belief was fortified by news that he was sending guns westward.

Anthony a Wood says that Foxe "believed and reported all that was told him, and there is every reason to suppose that he was purposely misled, and continually deceived by those whose interest it was to bring discredit on his work," but he admits that the book is a monument of his industry, his laborious research and his sincere piety.

You don't like being deceived.

William of Orange was not deceived by the specious temporizing of the king.

Inasmuch as its action changed very materially with age, " the buyer should in all instances be informed, so that he may not be deceived."

He also had to deal with a wizard, who deceived many by promising them salvation and release from evils, if they would follow him into the desert.

In the latter hope they were deceived, and the Bavarians under General Wrede slipped away to Bamberg in time.

He had meanwhile received (false) information of a British landing at Boulogne, and he was seriously deceived as to the numbers of Napoleon's forces.

It is generally believed that Marie Antoinette was stainless in the matter, that Rohan was an innocent dupe, and that the Lamottes deceived both for their own ends.

Whether he deceived himself or not, he led President Kruger and the Boers to believe that Germany was prepared to go to almost any length in support of the Transvaal if any opportunity occurred.

Murad was completely deceived by these crafty representations, and at once accepted the offer.

On discovering that he had been deceived he broke off all relations with the prince for a year, but their alliance was renewed.

He was not, like Schultens, deceived by the pretended antiquity of the Yemenite Kasidas.

An award may, however, be set aside where the arbitrator has misconducted himself (an arbitrator may also be removed by the court on the ground of misconduct), or where it is ultra vires, or lacks any of the other requisites - above mentioned - of a valid award, or where the arbitrator has been wilfully deceived by one of the parties, or some such state of things exists.

It is of course always possible that in any particular case we may be deceived; we may be assuming as self-evidently true what is in reality not so.

The nation threw itself on the side of the Pharisees; not in the spirit, of punctilious legalism, but with the ardour of a national enthusiasm deceived in its dearest hopes, and turning for help from the delusive kingship of the Hasmonaeans to the true kingship of Yahweh, and to His vicegerent the king of David's house.

But in this he was greatly deceived.

It would appear that on this point he was deceived, but as he now declined to accept the articles he was confined within the precincts of the palace of the bishop of Chichester.

No Scottish king ever embarked on such a coup d'etat as the arrest of " the whole Scottish House of Lords," and Knox, who attributes a much larger design to James V., must have been deceived by rumour.

The prophets and patriarchs, having been often deceived by the Demiurge, suspected a trick and would not avail themselves of the promised salvation, remaining content with the bliss of being in Abraham's bosom.

If so, they were deceived.

Bunyan was not deceived.

Rumour got abroad, owing to the secrecy of his end, that he was not really dead, and an impostor long lived at the Scottish court who claimed to be the missing king, and was recognized as Richard by many malcontents who wished to be deceived.

But, in ordinary cases of illusion, once let the reason for the illusion be discovered, and there is no longer the possibility of our being longer deceived.

The war of the Polish succession proved him to have been deceived.

In 1845 the Moderates having deceived their Liberal allies, revised the constitution of 1837 and limited the freedom it gave.

Reckless as was the course adopted, it was in touch with the feelings of the majority of a nation which had been to the very end deceived by the government and by the press not only in regard to its own resources, but also in regard to those of the United States and of the colonists in arms in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands.

So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land.

Totila's conquest of Italy was marked not only by celerity but also by mercy, and Gibbon says "none were deceived, either friends or enemies, who depended on his faith or his clemency."

Sigwart, indeed, is deceived both about particulars and universals.

In some respects this expectation was not deceived; the years that followed 1360 seem to have been prosperous at home, despite the continued friction arising from the Statute of Laborers.

There are few that have duly considered the case; few that are not deceived by appearances.

It was the idea of being deceived.

Being around Lathum had opened his eyes to the number of people who deceive and are deceived.