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21Direct tax — Direct Di*rect , a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct: cf. F. direct. See {Dress}, and cf. {Dirge}.] 1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means …
22oratio directa — Direct Di*rect , a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct: cf. F. direct. See {Dress}, and cf. {Dirge}.] 1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means …
23The Carmelite Order — The Carmelite Order † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order One of the mendicant orders. Origin The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …
24deceit — n. Deception, fraud, imposition, imposture, finesse, artifice, duplicity, guile, trickery, chicanery, cozenage, cheating, double dealing, crooked ways, dark ways, underhandedness, deceitfulness …
25deceit — n 1. deception, dissimulation, hypocrisy, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane, trickery; jugglery, trumpery, dupery, hocus pocus, fraudulence, shenanigan; craft, wiles, guile, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle,… …
26knavery — n 1. rascality, roguery, roguishness, unscrupulousness, baseness, knavishness; villainy, miscreancy, deviltry, evildoing, wrongdoing, evil ways, dark and crooked ways; mischief, mischievousness, pettifoggery, chicanery, shenanigans, hanky panky,… …
27legerdemain — n 1. sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, prestidigitation, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery,… …
28prestidigitation — n 1. legerdemain, sleight of hand, jugglery, juggling, conjuring, hocus pocus; magic, trickery, thaumaturgy. 2. deception, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, dark and crooked ways, evil ways; fraud, cheating, chicane; trumpery, dupery, fraudulence …
29trickery — n deceit, guile, artifice, craft, craftiness, shrewdness, wiliness, slyness, circumvention; artfulness, subtlety, finesse, Inf. razzle dazzle, Sl. jive, Sl. hype; shiftiness, evasiveness, slipperiness; duplicity, double dealing, cozenage, dark… …
30Bypath — By path , n.; pl. {Bypaths}. A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. [1913 Webster] God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak. [1913 Webster] …
