hocus-pocussed

Whether there was "something in" for the force to arrest and convict or not, as a matter of fact the thieves were sooner or later hocus-pocussed out of their share, either by the police, by some untrustworthy fence, or by some lawyer who was pitched upon to work back the securities on a percentage.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

This fellow Strange, with his fortune-tellin 'and his charms and his conjures, has hocus-pocussed the whole neighborhood.

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

To my mind the "Absolute" philosophies were finally knocked on the head by Hamilton; and the "Unknowable" in Mr. Spencer's sense is merely the Absolute redivivus, a sort of ghost of an extinct philosophy, the name of a negation hocus-pocussed into a sham thing.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

To my mind the "Absolute" philosophies were finally knocked on the head by Hamilton; and the "Unknowable" in Mr. Spencer's sense is merely the Absolute redivivus, a sort of ghost of an extinct philosophy, the name of a negation hocus-pocussed into a sham thing.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Some cherished legend of the past, you'll say -- "_How Moses hocus-pocussed_ 25

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850