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Trump, v.² Also: trumpe, trwmp, tro(u)mp. [Cf. e.m.E. tromp (1598). OF tromper.] tr. To deceive, trick.pres. 1513 Doug. xi xiii 99.
Bot this Orsilochus fled hir [sc. Camilla] in the feild, And gan to trump [Ruddim. trumpe] with mony a turnying went; In circulis wyde scho drave hym our the bent 1571 Sat. P. xxix 41.
The Duvill, thatt man kynd he may trumpe, tekis forme of angell brytep.t. 1513 Doug. i vi 82.
That fals man, by dissaitfull wordis fair, With vaynhope trumpit [Ruddim. trumpet] the wofull luffar a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 1140 (Wr.).
I trumped never a man, But truely told the naked truethp.p. 1375 Barb. xix 716.
Thai sall lete thaim trumpyt [C. trwmpit] ill 1513 Doug. v xiv 45.
Trumpit 1584 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 415.
He lukit that his injunctions being so strait, and not satisfeit fullie, sould compt him self to haif bein trompit with fair words in tyme bypast c1590 Fowler I 131/154.
They sall perceawe thame troumpet by deceat [It. ingannate] a1605 Montg. Sonn. xlviii 11.
As thou art banishd, so am I exyld; As thou art trumped, so am I begyld