From para and logizomai; to misreckon, i.e. Delude -- beguile, deceive.
see GREEK para
see GREEK logizomai
a. to reckon wrong, miscount: Demosthenes, p. 822, 25; 1037, 15.
b. to cheat by false reckoning (Aeschines, Aristotle); to deceive by false reasoning (joined to ἐξαπαταν, Epictetus diss. 2, 20, 7); hence,
c. universally, to deceive, delude, circumvent: τινα, Colossians 2:4; James 1:22 (the Sept. several times for רִמָּה).