All 4 Uses of
deceive
in
Moby Dick
- It was an exceedingly LONG LAY that, indeed; and though from the magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a TEENTH of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.†
Chpt 16-18deceive = lie or mislead
- But it seemed that, when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter, were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question.†
Chpt 19-21deceived = lied or misled
- Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.†
Chpt 70-72deceiving = lying or misleading
- Sway me up, men; ye have been deceived; not Moby Dick casts one odd jet that way, and then disappears.†
Chpt 133-135 *deceived = lied or misled
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality