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feigned, ppl. a.|feɪnd|
Also 5 feynit, Sc. 6 feinyeat, fenȝeid, -it, fei-, feynȝeit, feinȝed, feinyet.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
†1. Fashioned, formed, shaped. Obs.
c1400Apol. Loll. 85 His feynar haþ hopid in his feynid þingis.
2. Fictitiously invented or devised. Also, related in fiction, fabled. Obs. or arch.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 173 This is no feyned mater that I telle. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 3 Feinzed Fables. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer Communion, Feyned excuses. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 74 Quhilk reportis ar all..fenzeit, and untrew. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 101 A peculiar voyce which the French call by a feigned word, ‘Reere’. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. ⁋4 The faigned games of Homer and Virgil. 1670Tenison (title), Creed of Mr. Hobbes Examined, in a feigned conference between Him and a Student of Divinity. 1728Newton Chronol. Amended Introd. 6 The Priests..had filled up the interval with feigned Kings. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 19 To be found in history, whether actual or feigned.
†b. Contrived for deception. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 153/1 Feynyd sleythe of falshede.
†3. Fictitiously or arbitrarily supposed; imaginary. feigned price: = ‘fancy price’. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 276 Aboue the necessite of nature they wyll haue theyr feyned necessaryes. 1607–12Bacon Ess. Riches (Arb.) 232 What fayned prices are sett vpponn litle stones. 1726tr. Gregory's Astronomy I. 319 As many Degrees of the feigned Equator.
4. Of attributes, actions, diseases, etc.: Simulated, counterfeited, pretended, sham.
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxx. (1483) 80 Another thynge is a veray hede and another a feyned hede. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour L v b, They gyue out of theyr brestes grete and fayned syghes. a1577Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 106 All her guiles she hid With fained teares. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Robert I, 33 Inquisition salbe taken, gif that be done be fenzeid furie, or not. 1642R. Carpenter Experience iii. v. 108 We must be..carefull that these Acts in their exercise, be true..not faigned and superficiall. 1709Steele Tatler No. 1 ⁋6 Personating Feigned Sorrows. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 414 Their mutual fears produced..a feigned reconciliation. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 72 Feigned and Concealed Diseases. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 163 Mortal enemies..came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
†b. Prefixed to personal designations: That is such only in pretence; pretended. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋289 Youre trewe freendes and youre feyned counseillours. 1548Hall Chron. 211 A fained, false and a coloured frende. 1550Crowley Inform. & Petit. 175 Wee are but fayned Christians, we beare the name onely. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. iv. 16 Fained Friends, becoming unfained Foes.
†c. Of things: Counterfeit, spurious, sham.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 223 Mosques..are in their Cupolaes curiously ceruleated with a feigned Turquoise. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 74 Took down the feigned Body from the Cross.
d. Of a name, etc.: Assumed, fictitious. Of a voice, handwriting, etc.: Disguised.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse A vj b, I have reduced it into the forme of a Dialoge: the names of the personages indede fained [etc.]. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. i. 7 To hide her fained sex. 1675Marvell Corr. ccxliii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 457, I cannot tell whether it be a true or a fained name. 1762J. Brown Poetry & Mus. vii. (1763) 141 The Poets..represent real Characters under feigned names. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i, I copied them..in a feigned hand. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. 29 The feigned address he had previously assumed.
†5. Mus.
a. (see feign v. 12 b.)
b. = falsetto 3. Obs.
1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 24 The fained Scale exceedes the others both in height and depth. For it addeth a Ditone vnder Vt base, because it sings fa in A, and it riseth aboue eela by two degrees, for in it it sounds fa. Ibid., Fained Musicke is..a Song made beyond the regular Compasse of the Scales. Or, it is a Song, which is full of Coniunctions [i.e. accidental flats]. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. xi. 43 Increasing of the Voice in the Treble Part..in Feigned Voices, doth oftentimes become harsh.
6. Law. (See quots.)
1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 6 §1 Feyned playntes. 1542–3Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 4 The aforesaide false and fayned recouere. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §5 G, The feined consent is by Lawe for some fact, when the consent of both parties appeareth not, and yet inasmuch as the fact is done, they are by Law both feined and deemed to consent. a1709Atkyns Parl. & Pol. Tracts (1734) 317 The feigned Action..the Lord Chief Justice seems to justify. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. iii. xxvii. 452 As no jury can be summoned to attend this court [Equity], the fact is.. directed to be tried..upon a feigned issue. For (in order to..have the point in dispute..put in issue) an action is feigned to be brought. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 519 Any such feigned recovery.
7. Mil. = false a. 14.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 35 Fained skirmishes. 1783Watson Philip III (1839) 69 A third detachment was sent to make a feigned attack in another quarter. 1876Voyle Milit. Dict. 135/1 A feigned assault..for the purpose of diverting the enemy from the real point of attack.
†8. Of persons, their manner, faces, etc.: Made up to a certain appearance, got up for a purpose; hence, deceitful, insincere. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 97 He was fals, hit was but feyned chere. c1386― Man of Law's T. 264 O feyned womman, alle that may confounde Vertu and innocence..Is bred in the. 1393Gower Conf. III. 158 They..by fallas Of feigned wordis make him wene, That black is white. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 195 Hauyng sic traist in to thy [Fortune's] fenȝeit face. 1535Coverdale Ps. xvi[i]. 1 My prayer, that goeth not out of a fayned mouth [1611 Ibid. Fained lips]. 1536Starkey Let. to Cromwell in England (1878) p. xli, You schal neuer fynd me faynyd man. a1605Montgomerie Descr. Vane Lovers 46 Vhar thou finds tham faynd refrane. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 124 Amurath..in a fained manner..seemed inclinable to offer me the Crown. |