decipiency

English

Etymology

From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪpɪənsi/

Noun

decipiency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) hallucination or deception.
   • 1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:

     […] mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency; […] and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.

References

• “decipiency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.