Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
feign .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To feign.
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- verb Obsolete form of
feign .
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Examples
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And as Homere, like a learned Poete, doth feyne, that Circes, by pleasant in-chantmentes, did turne men into beastes, some into Swine, som into Asses, some into Foxes, some into Wolues etc. euen so
The Scholemaster 1870
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Nature is feyne of crafte here eien to borowe, 416
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Cheef bellewedir/of feyned [Q] trwaundise this is to meene/my silf I cowde feyne
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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And as Homere, like a learned Poete, doth feyne, that Circes, by pleasant in - chantmentes, did turne men into beastes, some into Swine, som into Asses, some into Foxes, some into Wolues etc. euen so
The Scholemaster 1570
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And as _Homere_, like a learned Poete, doth feyne, that _Circes_, by pleasant in - chantmentes, did turne men into beastes, some into Swine, som into Asses, some into Foxes, some into Wolues etc. euen so
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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