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Feign
FEIGN, v.t. fane. [L. fingo. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]
1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh 6.
2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Sam 14.
She feigns a laugh.
3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.
The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
4. To dissemble; to conceal. Obs.
feign appears in definitions for these words:
Act Artificial Assimulate Astrea Atlantica Belie Comment Commentitious Counterfeit Counterfeited Coyness Dialogism Dialogue-writer Dissimulation Dummerer Earnest Fable Fabled Fabler Fabling Fabulous Fabulousness False Falsetto Feign Feigner Fictile Fiction Fictitious Fictitiousness Fictive Figment Figure Fucus Good Hamadryad Hypocrisy Hypocrite I Invent Laugh Personate Pretend Pretended Pretense Pretensed Simulate Simulating Simulation Sincere Unfeigned Unforced Unsay
Act Artificial Assimulate Astrea Atlantica Belie Comment Commentitious Counterfeit Counterfeited Coyness Dialogism Dialogue-writer Dissimulation Dummerer Earnest Fable Fabled Fabler Fabling Fabulous Fabulousness False Falsetto Feign Feigner Fictile Fiction Fictitious Fictitiousness Fictive Figment Figure Fucus Good Hamadryad Hypocrisy Hypocrite I Invent Laugh Personate Pretend Pretended Pretense Pretensed Simulate Simulating Simulation Sincere Unfeigned Unforced Unsay
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