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3. A mean, despicable person; one whose
character meanness and wickedness meet.

The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the
moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the
change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying
as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there
was a time when it had nothing of this in it. Trench.

Caj"e*put (?), n. See
Cajuput.

Ca*jole" (?), v. i. [imp. &
p. p. Cajoled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cajoling.] [F. cajoler, orig., to
chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle
talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale,
jaiole, F. geôle, dim. of cage a cage.
See Cage, Jail.] To deceive with flattery or
fair words; to wheedle.

I am not about to cajole or flatter you
into a reception of my views.

F. W. Robertson.

Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.

Ca*jole"ment (?), n. The act
of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.


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