abuse to deceive, to impose upon:
“I am mightily abused”
KING LEAR, iv. 7. 53
; (
“I am strangely imposed on by appearances, I am in a strange
mist of uncertainty,”
JOHNSON)
“The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,”
OTHELLO, iv. 2. 140
;
“You are a great deal abused in too bold a persuasion,”
CYMBELINE, i. 4. 109
;
“abuses me to damn me,”
HAMLET, ii. 2. 599.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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