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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. [1913 Webster] The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10. [1913 Webster] 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/ مختلقFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
feigned //ˈfeɪnd//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]неискрен, престорен being a pretence, false
feigned /fˈeɪnd/ hranýFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
feigned /fˈeɪnd/ vorgetäuscht, gespielt, aufgesetztFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]Synonym: pretend see: feigned happiness, pretend happiness
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/ προσποιητόςFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
feigned /fˈeɪnd/ 1. kitalált 2. színlelt 3. erôltetett 4. tettetettFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) : [ bouvier ]/ˈfeɪnd/
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. tFrom 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, warpedFrom 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