Obs. [f. as prec. + -ERY.] The practice of cogging; deception, trickery; also, concr. a trick, deception.
1602. W. Watson, Quodlibets Relig. & State, 195 (T.). This is a second false surmise or coggerie of the Jesuits.
1603. Harsnet, Pop. Impost., 163. The children of lyes, coggeries, and Impostures.
1612. T. James, Jesuits’ Downef., 13. To get mony, with all manner of falsehood and coggerie.
