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Feign
feign (?), v. t. (imp. p. pr. akin to L. figura
figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure,
Faint, Effigy, Fiction.) 1.
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate
as if true.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou
feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi.
8.
The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and
floods. Shak.
2. To represent by a false appearance of; to
pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
Shak.
3. To dissemble; to conceal. (Obs.)
Spenser.
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