Pozed vs Poxed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between pozed and poxed

is that pozed is past tense of poze while poxed is past tense of pox.

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* 1864 , Samuel Lucas, Mornings of the recess, 1861-4 (volume 1, page 101)

But Pompey's party declined that proposal, while Cæsar was pozing a menacing enigma at Ravenna.

(Webster 1913)

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(wikipedia pox)

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(pathology) A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

Syphilis.

* poxy * chickenpox * cowpox * smallpox

(dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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