disguisen.
/dɪsˈɡʌɪz/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other
disguise1340
disguisingc1386
shiftc1570
French cut1606
knaverya1616
small clothes1625
small storesa1643
nugging-dress1699
kilting1721
fancy dress1770
under-habit1772
man-millinery1790
sheen1802
costume1818
ingubu1833
bedizenment1837
tat1839
extravaganza1860
rational dress1873
rubber1876
pearly1890
new look1920
collection1921
Daks1933
smart casual1943
separates1945
trapeze1958
Carnaby Street1965
haute boutique1966
kinderwhore1994
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > alteration from that which has been usual
disguise1340
disguising1395
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1518 In pompe and pride and vanite, In selcouthe maners and sere degyse Þat now es used of many wyse.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1524 For swilk degises and suilk maners..Byfor þis tyme ne has noght ben.
1594 Lodge Wounds Ciuill War in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VII. 143 Prisoners of divers nations and sundry disguises.
2.
a. Altered fashion of dress and personal appearance intended to conceal the wearer's identity; the state of being thus transformed in appearance for concealment's sake.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > disguised condition
disguisea1400
shape1597
disguisedness1615
in the serving ofa1616
dissimulation1671
incog1813
incognito1822
a1400 Coer de L. 962 The kyng hym [a baroun] tolde..Hou he founde hym [Rychard] in disguise.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 216 The banisht Kent, who in disguise [printed diguise], Followed his enemie king and did him seruice. View more context for this quotation
1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xviii. 214 In this extremity he left that City in disguise.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 125 His manner of going to the Appointment was in Disguise.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 4 Nov. 241 They concluded me a Gentlewoman in disguise.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 8 'Twas a Fairy in disguise.
b. figurative. A disguised condition or form. See also a blessing in disguise at blessing n. 4c.
ΚΠ
1709 Celebr. Beauties 10 in Poet. Miscell. (Tonson) vi. 514 Praise undeserv'd is Scandal in Disguise.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 4 His Grief is but his Grandeur in Disguise.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 184. ⁋12 None can tell whether the good that he pursues is not evil in disguise.
1896 N.E.D. at Disguise Mod. A blessing in disguise.
3.
a. ‘A dress contrived to conceal the person that wears it’ (Johnson); a garb assumed in order to deceive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [noun]
disguising1485
disguisementa1586
disguise1596
fancy dress1770
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vii. sig. Sv Magnificke Virgin, that in queint disguise Of British armes doest maske thy royall blood. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 72 Ned, where are our disguises ? View more context for this quotation
1667 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (1684) i. 120 In 1648 [the Duke] was..conveyed in a Disguise or Habit of a girl beyond sea.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 293 Now I bring you your disguise.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 395 You were wrapped in a goatskin or some other disguise.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 1 Their glory being intercepted..by some later disguise of alteration or addition.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 193 Without any other clothing or disguise of words.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xxxiv. 248 This high-sounding language is merely the splendid disguise of ignorance.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. iv. 82 The passion obliged to act under a disguise becomes different in its nature from the open one.
4. Any artificial manner assumed for deception; a false appearance, a counterfeit semblance or show; deception.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]
hue971
glozea1300
showingc1300
coloura1325
illusionc1340
frontc1374
simulationc1380
visage1390
cheera1393
sign?a1425
countenance?c1425
study?c1430
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false colour1531
visure1531
face1542
masquery?1544
show1547
gloss1548
glass1552
affectation1561
colourableness1571
fashion1571
personage?1571
ostentation1607
disguise1632
lustrementa1641
grimace1655
varnish1662
masquerade1674
guisea1677
whitewash1730
varnish1743
maya1789
vraisemblance1802
Japan1856
veneering1865
veneer1868
affectedness1873
candy coating1885
simulance1885
window dressing1903
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 36 The Pilot (all disguise laid aside) said unto him.
1656 R. Vines Treat. Lords-supper (1677) 155 Naked of all humane disguizes.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 558 No works shall find acceptance, in that day When all disguises shall be rent away That square not truly with the Scripture plan.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xliii. 273 Philomelus now threw off all disguise.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming vi Perfect candour can do more for us than a dark disguise.
5. The act or practice of disguising; concealment of the reality under a specious appearance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > act of disguising
misguising1581
disguisement1583
disguising1587
vizarding1609
disguisea1616
disguisal1834
maskinga1933
cover-up1958
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 536 So disguise shall by th'disguised Pay with falshood, false exacting. View more context for this quotation
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 159 Nor could He have been led into it by any open..temptation, but by a thousand disguises and couzenages.
a1720 A. Pope Chorus Youths & Virgins 38 Hence false tears, deceits, disguises.
1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 9 With regard to Subtlety, Evasion, and Disguise.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 252 Thou friend..to whom I communicate without disguise the inmost secrets of my breast.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. ii. 32 The heathen defied the law within him. There was no disguise in Paganism.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > masque > [noun]
disguising1481
maskeling1513
masque1526
masquery1535
disguise1622
1622 B. Jonson Masque of Augurs in Wks. (Rtldg.) 630/2 Disguise was the old English word for a Masque.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 245 Masques (which they then called Disguises).
1645 J. Milton Passion iii, in Poems 17 O what a Mask was there, what a disguise.
7. ‘Disorder by drink’ (Johnson).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness
drunkennessc893
drunkenc950
drunknessc1160
drunkenheada1300
drunkhead1340
drunkelewnessa1387
winedrunkennessa1387
drunkship1393
drunkelewc1430
vinolence1430
yverescec1430
drunkenshipc1440
drunkelecc1450
barley-hooda1529
ebriety1582
alecy1594
distemper1600
insobriety1611
disguisea1616
perpotation1623
temulency1623
vinolency1623
intoxication1624
pot-shot1630
ebriosity1646
inebriation1646
Bacchation1656
fluster1710
temulentness1727
fuddle1764
inebriety1801
temulence1803
Lushington1823
fluffiness1860
booziness1863
jag1891
brannigan1892
befuddlement1905
mokus1924
muzzy-headedness1930
pixilation1936
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 121 Strong Enobarbe Is weaker then the Wine, and mine owne tongue Spleet's what it speakes: the wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all. View more context for this quotation
1622 B. Jonson Masque of Augurs in Wks. (Rtldg.) 630/1 Disguise! what mean you by that? do you think that his majesty sits here to expect drunkards?
8. See disguise v. 8.
ΚΠ
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. §286 In accordance with the conditions of the induction and disguise of electricity, it is obvious that an insulated jar cannot be charged.
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disguisev.
/dɪsˈɡʌɪz/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately
disguisec1325
quaintisea1333
guisea1400
to dress up?a1513
deck?1521
garnisha1535
trim1594
gallant1614
sprug1622
dizena1625
to dress out1649
bedizen1661
rig1723
trim1756
bedress1821
gaudy1838
buck up1854
garb1868
clobber1887
mum1890
to do up1897
dude1899
toff1914
lair1941
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 255 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 335 Nu ben theih so degysed and diverseliche i-diht, Unnethe may men knowe a gleman from a kniht.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 24 In Cuntinaunce of cloþinge queinteliche de-gyset.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2250 He that loveth trewely Shulde..hym disgysen in queyntyse.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxix. 209 Mortimer disgised him with wonder riche clothes out of al maner reson both of shapyng and of weryng.
1539 T. Chapman in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) p. xv The perfeccion of Christian livyng dothe not consiste in dome ceremonyes..disgeasing our selffes aftyr straunge fassions.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Excess of Apparel, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 312 Many men care not what they spend in disguising themselves, ever..inventing new fashions.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > make different in dress
disguise1340
the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > differ from [verb (transitive)] > distinguish or differentiate
to-skillc1175
disguise1340
asunderc1425
differc1450
difference1490
sort1553
distinguish1576
particularize?1593
diversify1594
subdistinguish1610
discriminate1615
severalize1645
specify1645
disresemble1651
estrange1727
discrepate1828
differentialize1833
differentiate1838
dissimilate1876
redifferentiate1970
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 97 Hi is zoþliche newe and desgised uram oþre laȝes.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 90 Amonges wymmen he spanne, In theyre habyte disguysed from a man.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. 143 Thei ware disguised fro ye commune maner of other.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] > modify > appearance
disfigure?c1370
disguise1393
unbeast1611
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 16 Þei scholden noght..The Papacie so desguise vpon diuerse eleccion.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xii. 18 Whyle he maketh many wordes, he shall dysguyse his countenaunce.
1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 453 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 274 Bot gif it wer on sic a maner wyiss him to translait or ellis dissagyiss fra his awin kynd in to ane vder stait.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 49/2 He [Saint Paul] reproveth his enimies which disguised the lawe of God.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K3v Her cheeks with chops and wrincles were disguiz'd, Of what shee was, no semblance did remaine. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 482 They saw the Faces, which too well they knew; Tho' then disguis'd in Death.
4.
a. To change the guise, or dress and personal appearance, of (any one) so as to conceal identity; to conceal the identity of by dressing as some one or in a particular garb. (Now the leading sense.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > conceal by disguise [verb (transitive)]
beclout?c1225
disguisea1375
veilc1384
dissimule1485
counterfeit1490
dissemble?1507
guisea1510
wry1567
discountenance1574
conceal1598
belie1610
dislikena1616
obvolve1623
transvest1649
travesty1665
mask1847
camouflage1917
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1677 Ȝef ȝe were disgised & diȝt on any wise..ȝe wold be aspied.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 227 She cast in her wit..Hou she him mighte so desguise That no man shuld his body know.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 207 Robert the Bruce wnder the levis grene..Oft disagysit in ane sempill weid.
1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 176v They come disguised in an other habite.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 63 Disguised in the habit of a Turke.
1720 J. Gay Dione i. v, in Poems II. 450 The shepherd's garb the woman shall disguise.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 297 She disguised him in woman's clothes.
1882 E. A. Freeman Lect. Amer. Audiences v. 153 A friend disguised in the garb of an enemy.
1896 N.E.D. at Disguise Mod. He attempted to escape disguised as a monk.
b. reflexive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > disguise oneself [verb (reflexive)]
disguise1340
dissimule1485
dissemble?1507
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 158 Ine hou uele wyzen he [þe dyeuel] him desgyzeþ.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1570 (1577) Yn purpos gret, Hym self lyk a Pylgrym to degyse.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xiv. 2 Disguise the, so that no man perceaue that thou art Ieroboams wyfe.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 721 Wee man turne our claithis..And dis-agyse vs, that na man ken vs.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xx. 38 The prophet..disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face. View more context for this quotation
1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia xvi. 299 The wife of Milosch was obliged to disguise herself in the dress of a Servian female peasant.
5. To alter the appearance of (anything) so as to mislead or deceive as to it; to exhibit in a false light; to colour; to misrepresent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)]
disguise1398
colourc1400
abuse?a1439
wrest1524
beliec1531
to spell (one) backward1600
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bowa1616
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traduce1643
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miscolour1661
misrender1674
travesty1825
misdescribe1827
skew1872
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. vi. (Tollem. MS.) This Aloe Caballinum is disgised [L. sophisticatur] with pouder of safron and vynegre, yf it is ten siþes plungid þerin, and dryed.
1623 Ld. Herbert Let. 31 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 166 [To] palliate and disguise those thinges which it concernes them to knowe.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. 11 Plato's custome to desguise the Traditions he received from the Jews.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 127 Some merchants endeavour to disguise and put off a bad commodity.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 254 To speak the truth, that was to say, substantial truth, a little disguised and coloured.
6. To conceal or cloak the real state or character of (anything) by a counterfeit show or appearance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > conceal real state
dissimulec1374
feigna1393
shroud1412
abuse?a1439
counterfeit1490
cloak1509
dissemblea1535
maska1593
dissimulate1610
disguisea1616
pretext1634
mascherate1654
veil1700
camouflage1917
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 8 Then imitate the action of the Tyger..Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 23 This moving Court, that caught the peoples Eyes, And seem'd but Pomp, did other ends disguise.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 104 I think to disguise our Thoughts is an Art better lost, than learnt.
1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges iv. 103 A feint to disguise the intention.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 76 The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
7.
a. To conceal or hide (a material thing) by any superficial coating or operation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]
heeleOE
forhelec888
i-hedec888
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wryOE
behelec1000
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overheleOE
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hulsterc1400
overclosec1400
concealc1425
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blend1430
close1430
shadow1436
obumber?1440
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alaynec1450
mew?c1450
purloin1461
to keep close?1471
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occulta1500
silec1500
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bemist1598
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screen1611
underfold1612
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eclipsea1616
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ensconcea1616
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overlay1719
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blank1764
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wrap1817
buttress1820
stifle1820
disidentify1845
to stick away1900
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 36 Yet thinke not, that this Too-too-much, remises Ought into nought: it but the Forme disguises In hundred fashions.
1744 C. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 59 The deepest Shades no more disguise Than the full Blaze of Day.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. iv. 66 The colouring particles..are there disguised by an alkali.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 116 An insulated cliff..being nearly perpendicular, is never disguised with snow.
b. To conceal the identity of under a different name or title.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > disguise under new name
disguise1639
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 50 Whom we will disguise under the name of Anaclete.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. iv. 69 The new title..did not disguise the old friend.
8. To conceal the presence of (electricity) by neutralization; to dissimulate. (Usually in passive.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric charge, electricity > charge [verb (transitive)] > neutralize
dissimulate1838
disguise1839
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. §278 When two insulated conducting bodies are differently electrified, and approached towards each other, so as to be within the influence of their mutual attraction..no signs of electricity are communicated by either to a pith ball electrometer connected with them..The electric fluids are thus said to become disguised, or paralysed, by their mutual attractive action.
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. §288 On turning the machine, the positive electricity accumulating in the inside of the battery becomes disguised by the inducting action of the outside coating.
9. To intoxicate (with liquor). archaic (the past participle survived longer in slang use: see disguised adj. 6).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
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1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xxxiv. sig. B Three cuppes full at once shall ofte dysguyse[1562 dysgyse] thee.
a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. xiv. sig. Iij We will get him out to the Tauern and there cause him to be disguised, that hee shall neither be able to stand nor goe.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 138 It may so stupifie and disguise them, that they may be the more easily master'd.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 244 Sure, fuddling a trade is Not lovely in Ladies, Since it thus can disguise a Soft sylph like Eliza.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (intransitive)]
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faitc1330
counterfeitc1374
dissimulec1374
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to let on1822
simulate1823
possum1832
simulacrize1845
to put on an act1929
to put on (also up) a show1937
prat1967
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. i. sig. O4v Zelmane..disguise not with me in words, as I know thou doost in apparell.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. E1v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) But if I should..tell you..you might think I did not then disguize with you.
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