subs. phr. (old cant).—A juggler; also a shifty fellow or trickster.

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  1676.  SHADWELL, The Virtuoso, ii., p. 19. I shall stand here till one of them has whipt away my Mistris about business, with a HIXIUS DOXIUS, with the force of Repartee, and this, and that, and Everything in the world.

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  1678.  BUTLER, Hudibras, iii., 3, 579.

        At Westminster, and Hickses-Hall,
And HICCIUS DOCKIUS play’d in all.

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  1688.  WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife, iii. That burlesque is a Hocus-pocus trick they have got, which by the virtue of HICTIUS DOCTIUS, topsey-turvey, etc.

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  1812.  JOHNSON, English Dictionary, s.v. HICCIUS DOCCIUS … a cant word for juggler; one that plays fast and loose.

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  Adj. (old).—Drunk; slovenly. Also, HICKEY (q.v.). For synonyms, see DRINKS and SCREWED.

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  1733.  R. NORTH, Examen, i., 3, 137 (1740). The author with his HICCIUS-DOXIUS delivery.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HICKSIUS DOXIUS. Drunk.

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