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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.

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.

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