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stellionate

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Noun
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stel=lion=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

stellionaten. [L. stellionatus cozenage, trickery, fr. stellio a newt, a crafty, knavish person.].
     Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.  Erskine.  [1913 Webster]

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