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Fallacious, deceitful; now it means ill-tempered, carping. (Latin, captioʹsus.)
“I know I love in vain, strive against hope;
Yet in this captious and intenible sieve
I still pour in the waters of my love.”
Shakespeare: All’s Well that Ends Well, i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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