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stellionate
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stellionate, n. [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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