adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a captious manner.

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1539.  Bible (Great), Luke xi. 53. The lawears and the Pharyses began … capciously to aske him many thynges.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1684), III. 239. Captiously asking often of Bradford a direct answer concerning Oaths.

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1657.  J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., 78. A fallacy in sophistry, that is, when a saying is captiously taken and turned to another sense.

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1812.  J. & H. Smith, Rej. Addr., x. (1873), 96. Objections … captiously urged.

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1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xxiii. (1878), 415. The father … had been behaving captiously and unjustly to his son.

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