[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That juggles; playing tricks of magic or legerdemain; playing tricks, cheating, deceptive.
a. 1533. Frith, Disput. Purgat., To Rdr. Sith we … will … not conferre and examine these iuggling mistes with the light of Gods word, our ignoraunce is wilfull.
1595. Shaks., John, III. i. 169. Though you … This iugling witchcraft with reuennue cherish, Yet I alone, alone doe me oppose Against the Pope.
1652. Sir E. Nicholas, in N. Papers (Camden), 312. That juggling Cardinal will not suffer the K. of France to do any good for the K.
1756. Burke, Vind. Nat. Soc., Wks. I. 58. The government is … a juggling confederacy of a few to cheat the prince and enslave the people.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XX. 208. Fabling creeds, and juggling priests.
Hence Jugglingly adv., in a juggling or deceptive manner; beguilingly.
1647. C. Walker, Myst. Two Juntos, 3. It is known how malignantly and how juglingly writs for new elections were granted and executed.
1653. H. More, Antid. Ath., III. xvi. (1712), 138. Who cunningly and jugglingly endeavours to infuse the poyson of Atheism into the mind of his Reader.
