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impostery
† imˈpostery Obs. rare—1. [cf. prec.] Imposture: = impostory, -try, -tury.1656 Burton's Diary (1828) I. 72 His riding into Exeter was a horrid piece of pageantry and impostery, but how to call that blasphemy in him I know not.
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imposterious
† impoˈsterious, a. Obs. rare—1. [f. impostery + -ous; cf. impostorious, -urious.] = next.1633 Hart Diet Diseased iii. xxx. 373 As for the signe of life and death by the blood sweaty drops, I hold it either imposterious or impious and superstitious.
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impostury
† imˈpostury Obs. rare. [f. imposture + -y; cf. impostery, -tory, -try.] Imposture.1615 G. Sandys Trav. 107 Not long after the impostury of Mahomet. Ibid. 173 That Impostury of fetching fire from the Sepulcher upon Easter eve.
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impostrous
impostrous, a. (ɪmˈpɒstrəs) Also 7 impost'rous. [Abbreviation of imposterous or -orous: cf. monster, -trous.] 1. Having the character of an impostor.1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. 286 He that took th' impost'rous Ciprian king. 1850 Grote Greece ii. lxvii. VIII. 484 Aristotle..gave to the word Sophist...
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impostory
† imˈpostory Obs. rare. [f. as prec. + -y; cf. impostery, -ury.] = imposture.1653 A. Wilson Jas. I 107 It could not be imagined that any thing of Impostory could result from him. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. x. iv. §56 The Disease of the Mother being the best Foundation to build such Impostourie thereon.
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