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† diˈssimuled, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
= dissembled.
1. a. Concealed under a specious disguise; disguised. b. Feigned, pretended, counterfeit.
1475Bk. Noblesse (1860) 41 We have ben deceived and myschevid thoroughe suche dissimuled trewes. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 heading, Elizabeth Barton..under colour of hipocrisie, dissimuled sanctite, and false feined miracles, traitorously intended to distroy..the king. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. V (an. 39) 186 b, Brought up with a shepperd, in poore habite, and dissimuled behavior. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xix. 22 b, That passe, which his knavery and dissimuled treason hadde wished for. 1624T. Scott Belg. Souldier 24 The dissimuled peace of the Prouinces with the confederate Princes.
2. That has assumed a disguise; false; characterized by dissimulation.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 47 Him followit mony freik dissymlit, With fenȝeit wirdis quhyte. 1549Compl. Scot. vii. 71 Thai haue schauen them self ingrat, dissymilit, ande couuardis in the iust deffens of my veil fayr. Ibid. viii. 74. |