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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hocus /ˈhəʊkəs/

▶verb (hocusses, hocussing, hocussed or hocuses, hocusing, hocused) archaic

1 deceive.

2 stupefy with drugs.

– origin C17: from obs. hocus ‘trickery’, from hocus-pocus.

'hocus' also found in these Oxford entries:

hoax - hocus-pocus - hokey-cokey

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