• chicane (subs.): călumnia (i. e. malicious accusation or use of the law: malicious craft: Gr. συκοφαντία): a kind of c., and excessively ingenious but malicious interpretation of law, c. quaedam et nimis callida sed malitiosa juris interpretatio, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: to use c., c. adhibere, Cic. (N.B.--The verb calumnior appears to be used only in its more proper sense of to accuse maliciously. The term praevaricatio is applicable only to the kind of c. which consists in collusion on the part of an accuser.) v. craft, artifice.