deluder

This law was later strengthened by the famous Old Deluder Satan Act.

The father-in-law (an old deluder, overpaid at the beginning) accepts four, and rises to bind the bargain.

It implies some infirmity of judgment in the victim, and intention to deceive in the deluder.

A deluder like Buffet will claim that the $15 the government will take from me in consequence means that I've been taxed at 15%.

The Puritan emphasis on education was to thwart "that old deluder Sathan" who "keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures."

The preamble recited the colonists' belief that "one chief point of that old deluder, Satan, [was] to keep men from a knowledge of the Scriptures."

As the Old Deluder Satan Act and other Massachusetts School Laws attest, early education even under state control in Massachusetts had a clear religious intent.

When he placed Adam in paradise, "why was not that garden made by him fortified and strong, so that that deluder [Satan] could not have gotten into it?"

But this law didn't produce the desired results, so the colonial legislature passed another law in 1647, known as the "Old Deluder Satan Act," which gets its name from its preamble.

The Puritans sought to create a literate population to ensure that, as the law put it, "ye ould deluder, Satan" could not use illiteracy to "keepe men from the knowledge of ye Scriptures."

Our ancestors recognized the importance of learning and while the original function of our early American schools was to help young men avoid "deluder Satan," our Yankee heritage placed equally high values on learning and local decision making.

In 1647 the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted the Old Deluder Satan Law, requiring any township of at least 100 households to establish a grammar school, and similar laws followed in the other New England colonies.

Two years earlier, the Massachusetts Law of 1647, also known as the "Old Deluder Satan Law," called for grammar schools to be set up with the purpose of "being able to instruct youth so far as they shall be fitted for the university."