All 3 Uses of
deceive
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings; Or, as the heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive; So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!†
Scene 2.2 *deceive = lie or mislead
- O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss, Curs'd be thy stones for thus deceiving me!†
Scene 5.1deceiving = lying or misleading
- 'Deceiving me' is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality