What does decipiency mean?
Decipiency means (obsolete) hallucination or deception..
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/dɪˈsɪpɪənsi/ · noun
(obsolete) hallucination or deception..
[…]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.
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Decipiency means (obsolete) hallucination or deception..
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[…]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.
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