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10 استغشّهُ ذ (S, K) and ↓ اغتشّهُ (K, TA) He reckoned him, or deemed him, dishonest, or insincere, in action, or advice or counsel; contr. of اِسْتَنْصَحَهُ (S, K) and اِنْتَصَحَهُ; (K;) or, [which means the same,] i. q. عَدَّهُ غَاشًّا: (TA:) or he imagined in him dishonest, or insincere, conduct, or advice or counsel; dissimulation; or the pretending the contrary of what he conceived in his mind. (K.) A poet says, “ لَكَ نَاصِحٌ ↓ أَيَا رُبَّ مَنْ تَغْتَشُّهُ
وَمُسْتَنْصَحٍ بِالْغَيْبِ غَيْرُ أَمِينِ
” [O man, many a one whom thou reckonest dishonest in action, or advice, is honest therein to thee; and (many a) one who is reckoned honest in action, or advice, in that which is beyond the reach of perception, is not faithful]. (TA)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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