vicious
“in my guess, etc.—Though I perchance am,”
OTHELLO, iii. 3. 149.
“‘Vicious in my guess’ doth not mean that he is
an ill guesser [Warburton's explanation], but
that he is apt to put the worst construction on every thing he attempts to account
for”
(STEEVENS)
.
“Iago, I apprehend, means only, ‘though I perhaps am
mistaken, led into an error by my natural disposition, which is apt to shape faults that
have no existence’”
(MALONE)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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