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Definition of Cozen
1. Verb. Be false to; be dishonest with.
Specialized synonyms: Betray, Sell, Cheat, Chisel, Shill, Flim-flam, Fob, Fox, Play A Joke On, Play A Trick On, Play Tricks, Pull A Fast One On, Trick, Befool, Fool, Gull, Betray, Cheat, Cheat On, Cuckold, Wander, Hoax, Play A Joke On, Pull Someone's Leg, Ensnare, Entrap, Frame, Set Up, Humbug
Generic synonyms: Victimise, Victimize
Derivative terms: Deception, Deception, Deceptive, Deceptive, Delusion, Delusion, Delusion, Delusive, Delusory
2. Verb. Act with artful deceit.
3. Verb. Cheat or trick. "He cozened the money out of the old man"
Definition of Cozen
1. v. t. To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
2. v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Definition of Cozen
1. Verb. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cozen
1. to deceive [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: deceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cozen
Literary usage of Cozen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, and it was lost. 15th. Up betimes,
and rode as far as Godmanchester, Mr. Moore having two falls — once in water ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"... deceive and cozen the plaintiff, offering to fell one geld- was, that Vf that
gelding of a colt, and thai the faid gelding -was then his ..."
3. The Cheshire Sheaf edited by Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1896)
"Codicil : " Whereas I have a mortgage on a tenement of my cozen John Poole the
younger ... John Hockenhull of Hockenhull and my cozen John Poole the elder. ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, and it was lost. 15th. Up betimes,
and rode as far as Godmanchester, Mr. Moore having two falls — once in water ..."
5. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"... deceive and cozen the plaintiff, offering to fell one geld- was, that Vf that
gelding of a colt, and thai the faid gelding -was then his ..."
6. The Cheshire Sheaf edited by Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1896)
"Codicil : " Whereas I have a mortgage on a tenement of my cozen John Poole the
younger ... John Hockenhull of Hockenhull and my cozen John Poole the elder. ..."
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