a. [f. FRAUD sb. + -FUL.] Full of fraud, fraudulent, treacherous.

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c. 1400.  An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, 112. Þus he is a þef, and fraudful reuar.

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c. 1450.  Henryson, Fable Dog, Scheip & Wolf, 5. Ane fraudfull Wolf was juge that time.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxiv. 39. To pass out of this frawdfull fary.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., X. lvii. (1612), 251. By forced Warre or fraudfull peace.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Pastorals, VI. 30.

        For by the fraudful God deluded long,
They now resolve to have their promis’d Song.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., IV. 393.

        Mean time Minerva, from the fraudful horse,
Back to the court of Priam bent your course.

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c. 1750.  Shenstone, Elegies, xxiii. 21.

        See, garnish’d for the chace, the fraudful maid
  To these lone hills directs his devious way;
The youth, all prone, the sister guide obey’d,
  Ill-fated youth! himself the destin’d prey.

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1860.  T. Martin, Horace, 183.

        Not flying enemies, no, nor with shame
  Hannibal’s menaces back on him hurl’d,
Not fraudful Carthage expiring in flame,
  Blazon his glory more bright to the world.

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  Hence Fraudfully adv., in a fraudful manner.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Baptista, 497.

        Til fraudfully scho gert þe kinge,
as for þe tyme of his beryng,
assemble hale his barne.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, XI. 1055.

        The ayth he maid; Wallace com in his will;
Rycht frawdfully all thus schawyt him till.

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c. 1610.  Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1735), 408. Alledging that the Chancellor, who had made it, had left out the Rents of the Abbay of Dunfermling fraudfully.

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1876.  Ruskin, Fors Clavig., VII. lxxiii. 5. Only in fraudfully writing for the concealment of Fraud, and frantically writing for the help of unjust Force, do literary men become so senseless.

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