[f. JUGGLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb JUGGLE: a. the practice of magic or of legerdemain, conjuring; b. the practice of trickery or deception.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 137. No jogelyng ne falseheed was ony tyme in Crist.
1483. Cath. Angl., 199/1. A Iugulynge, gesticulacio.
1528. Tindale, Obed. Chr. Man, To Rdr. The worke of Antychrist and iugulynge of ypocrites.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 128. Let vs not … abuse the name or worde of God, in coniuring, iugling, or sorcerie.
1667. Duchess Newcastle, Life Duke of N., III. (1886), 170. There was such juggling, treachery, and falsehood in his own army.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. ii. (1840), 47. Innocent art, secret and cunning contrivances to delude the sight; this we call juggling, legerdemain or philosophical delusion.
1788. H. Walpole, in Walpoliana, cxiv. 48. Ireland, by the infamous juggling of the ‘Propositions’ has lost all confidence in this country.
1900. Speaker, 23 June, 328/2. This disingenuous juggling with noble ideals.
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1530. Palsgr., 234/2. Iogelyng caste, passe passe.
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk (Camden), 28. He plais me a pretti iugling kast of leger de main.
1589. Pasquil’s Ret., D iv. You haue lost your iugling stick.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. iii. (1840), 68. The juggling trade grew stale and dull.
1750. trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 143 (222). Quirinus, or Quirus, is a juggling Stone, found in the Nest of the Hoopoop.
