coggery

noun

coggery

noun

/ˈkɒɡəɹi/

Etymology From cog + -ery.

1

Obsolete trick; deception

Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions:

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