Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trifled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trifle \Tri"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trifled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trifling}.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See {Trifle}, n.]
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or
dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or
trivial amusements.

They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which
toucheth us. --Hooker.

{To trifle with}, to play the fool with; to treat without
respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's
feelings, or with sacred things.


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