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Cautious, cunning, treacherous. (Latin, cautēla; French, cauteleux; Spanish, cauteloso.)
“Caught with cautelous baits.”
Shakespeare: Coriolanus, iv. 1.
“Swear priests and cowards and men cantelous.”
Shakespeare: Julius Cœsar, ii. 1.
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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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