disguised, ppl. a.
(dɪsˈgaɪzd)
[f. disguise v. + -ed1.]
† 1. Changed from the usual or natural guise or fashion: a. disfigured; b. altered in fashion of dress for the sake of modish display. Obs.
| 1393 Gower Conf. III. 260 They sigh her clothes all disguised..Her haire hangend unkempt about. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. ii. (1869) 175 Þilke beste was disgised so vileliche, and so foule figured. 1563 Homilies ii. Excess of Apparel (1859) 312 The haughty stomacks of the daughters of England are so maintained with divers disguised sorts of costly apparell, that [etc.]. 1589 Peele Tale Troy 27 Where ladies troop'd in rich disguised attire. |
† 2. Of dress, etc.: Altered in fashion or assumed for the sake of concealing the identity of the wearer or bearer. Obs.
| 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. ii. 51 These haue ben feyned Religyous ypocrites with theyr desguysed clothes. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon ix. 23 Charlot had a dysgysyd shylde bycause he wolde not be knowen. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI an. 28. 161 Mistrustyng the sequele of y⊇ matter, [he] departed secretly in habite disguysed, into Sussex. 1608 D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 98 Wine..doth..unbare us of that disguis'd, and personated habit, under the which we are accustomed to marche. 1660 Blount Boscobel 51 Procur'd him a pass from the Rebel commanders in a disguised name. |
3. Of persons, etc.: Dressed in a strange or assumed garb, or having the appearance otherwise changed, for the sake of concealing identity.
| 1393 Gower Conf. III. 62 And he disguised fledde away By ship. 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. ii. 175 Disguised Gods..in pesants shape Prest to commit some execrable rape. 1639 T. Brugis tr. Camus' Moral Relat. 346 Finding no safety in high Germany..we came downe disguised into this inferiour Germany. 1843 Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 332 He..lay in ambush, directing the disguised Spaniards..to make signals. 1874 Morley Compromise (1886) 180 The congregation in the old story were untouched by the disguised devil's eloquence..it lacked unction. |
4. Of a thing, etc.: Altered in outward form so as to appear other than it is.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 4 What inquest made her dissemble her disguised kind? 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. 119 We may easily be deceived, by disguised and pretended reasons. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. v. §33 (1875) 120 Convinced as he is that all punishment..is but a disguised beneficence. 1878 Browning La Saisiaz 30 Hindrance proved but help disguised. |
† 5. Concealed or hidden so as not to appear.
| 1594 Marlowe & Nashe Dido i. i. Here in this bush disguised will I stand. 1677 A. Behn Rover iii. i, Oh! he lay disguized. |
6. Intoxicated; drunk, tipsy. arch. slang.
| 1607 Deloney Strange Hist. (1841) 14 The saylors and the shipmen all, through foule excesse of wine, Were so disguisde that at the sea they shewd themselves like swine. 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. iii. iii, Har. I am a prince disguised. Hir. Disguised? How? drunk? 1667 Dryden Wild Gallant i. i, I was a little disguised, as they say..Well, in short, I was drunk. 1754 Chesterfield World Wks. 1892 V. 293, I never saw him disguised with liquor in my life. 1821 Scott Kenilw. xxix, What if they see me a little disguised? Wherefore should any man be sober to⁓night? 1883 W. C. Russell Jack's Courtship in Longm. Mag. III. 18 A woman, disguised in liquor, with a bonnet on her back. 1884 Besant Childr. Gibeon ii. xxi, He was not ‘disguised’, his speech was clear. |
Hence disˈguisedly adv., in a disguised manner, in disguise; disˈguisedness, disguised state.
| 1612 Bp. Hall Imprese of God ii. in Recoll. Treat. (1614) 674 But alas, the painted faces, and mannishnesse, and monstrous disguisednesse of the one sexe. 1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 24 Hee..fled disguisedly by sea for his owne safety. 1633 Prynne Histrio-Mastix ii. ii. ii. (R.) The strange disguisednesse of theatricall attires. 1683 J. Barnard Life of Heylin 172 (L.) He..studied schism, and faction, by his own example, and his pen disguisedly. |