Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deceitful; crafty: involving criminal intent.
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Examples
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Fallax medicus qui potens mederi simplicibus, composita dolose aut frustra quaerit.
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Iohannes Rex Franci� sub vmbra pacis, & dolose obtulit Regi Angli� Flandriam, Picardiam, Aquitaniam, aliasque terras quas equitauerat & vastarat: pro quibus omnibus ratificandis, idem Rex Edwardus in Franciam nuncios suos direxit: quibus omnibus Franci contradixerunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et dixit, Venit frater tuus dolose et accepit benedictionem tuam.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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"_Ut tamen secundum ordinem procedamus, in primis cognosactur cognoscere desiderantibus, ne dolus dolo patrocinetur, vel simplex dolose muscipula claudatur. _"
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Iohannes Rex Franciæ sub vmbra pacis, & dolose obtulit
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Sepulchrum patcns eft gutcur eorum, linguis fuis dolose agcbant, * judicail - los Deus.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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Uni se atque eidem studio omnes dedere et arti uerba dare ut caute possint, pugnare dolose: blanditia certare, bonum simulare uirum se: insidias facere, ut si hostes sint omnibus omnes. [
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Deus est praestantissimus dolose agentium (an odd praise) ... nec crucifixerunt eum, sed objecta est eis similitudo; an expression that may suit with the system of the Docetes; but the commentators believe (Maracci, tom.ii. p. 113-115, 173.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Deus est praestantissimus dolose agentium (an odd praise) ... nec crucifixerunt eum, sed objecta est eis similitudo; an expression that may suit with the system of the Docetes; but the commentators believe (Maracci, tom.ii. p. 113 — 115, 173.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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