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خَدِيعَةٌ خديع خديعه خديعة Deceit, delusion, guile, circumvention, or outwitting; and a desire to do to another a foul, an abominable, or an evil, action, without the latter's knowing whence it proceeds; (S, K;) a subst. from خَدَعَهُ; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ خِدْعٌ , (Msb, TA,) or this is an inf. n.; (AZ, S, K;) and ↓ خُدْعَةٌ ; (TA;) and ↓ خِدَاعٌ ; (TA;) which [is also an inf. n. of خَادَعَهُ, and] originally signifies concealment: (Ham p. 541:) [and hence as above: and] also signifies prevention (مَنْعٌ); and art, artifice, cunning, or skill, in the management of affairs; (IAar, Sgh, K;) or a making another to resign, or relinquish, the object that he has in view, by pretending to him something the contrary of what he conceals. (Er-Rághib, B.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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