† simulatelyadv.
Obsolete.
Deceitfully, by or with pretence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adverb]
faintlyc1330
feigninglya1387
supposingly?a1450
feignedly1535
counterfeitly1548
dissimulately1556
pretencedly1567
simulately1592
pretensively1607
pretendedly1611
ironically1612
supposedly1618
feigning1620
pretendingly1645
fictitiously1646
fictly1677
simulatively1816
bogusly1862
1592 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 575/1 Vnder pretens and cullour of..giftis of þair escheattis simulatlie purchest.
1629 Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. 2nd Ser. III. 197 Of the whilks arreistments the most pairt ar simulatlie and fraudulentlie made.
1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. ii. 83 Job..seriously (not simulatly) wished he had never been born.
a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 29 He confessed (simulatly..) to liberat the King of suche grossnes.
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