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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
     L. fingere; 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              There are no such things done as thou sayest, but
              thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh.
                                                    vi. 8.
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              The poet
              Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and
              floods.                               --Shak.
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     2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to
        counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Feigned \Feigned\, a.
     Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
     false. ``A feigned friend.'' --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
           lips.                                    --Ps. xvii. 1.
     -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n.
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           Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
           with her whole heart, but feignedly.     --Jer. iii.
                                                    10.
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     Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
        action between two parties for the purpose of trying
        before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
        necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.
        --Bouvier.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
     L. fingere; 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Feigned \Feigned\, a.
     Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
     false. ``A feigned friend.'' --Shak.
  
           Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
           lips.                                    --Ps. xvii. 1.
     -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n.
  
           Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
           with her whole heart, but feignedly.     --Jer. iii.
                                                    10.
  
     Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended
        action between two parties for the purpose of trying
        before a jury a question of fact which it becomes
        necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.
        --Bouvier.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  feigned
       adj : not genuine; "feigned sympathy"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     a.
     Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
     vb.
     (infl of en feign  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     a.
     Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
     vb.
     (infl of en feign  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     a.
     Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
     vb.
     (infl of en feign  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     a.
     Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
     vb.
     (infl of en feign  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm f eign ed)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  feigned
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en feign ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb feign)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  مختلق

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  feigned //ˈfeɪnd// 
  неискрен, престорен
  being a pretence, false

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  hraný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  vorgetäuscht, gespielt, aufgesetzt 
     Synonym: pretend
  
   see: feigned happiness, pretend happiness
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  vorgetäuscht, vorgespielt, simuliert, so getan als
        "a feigned attack"  - ein Scheinangriff
        "He feigned an excuse to absent himself."  - Er erfand eine Ausrede, um sich absentieren zu können.
        "The driver of the vehicle feigned the robbery or is somehow involved in the offence."  - Der Fahrzeuglenker hat den Raubüberfall vorgetäuscht oder ist irgendwie an der Tat beteiligt.
   see: feign sth., feigning, feigned distress, feign sleep, feign death, feign ignorance, feign interest, Feigning a headache, I went upstairs to my room.
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  
  προσποιητός

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  feigned /fˈeɪnd/
  1. kitalált
  2. színlelt
  3. erôltetett
  4. tettetett

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈfeɪnd/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  FEIGNED issue, pract. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the 
  direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, 
  to determine before a jury some disputed matter of fact, which the court has 
  not the power or is unwilling to decide. 3 Bl. Com. 452; Bouv. Inst. Index, 
  h. t 
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "feigned":
     affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
     brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
     distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
     factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fictitious, fictive,
     garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, junky,
     make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
     pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy,
     simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious,
     synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine,
     unnatural, unreal, warped
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 假的,做作的,捏造的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 假的,做作的,捏造的

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