† disˈguisy, a. Obs.
Forms: 4 deguise, (disgisi, -gesye), 4–5 degyse, 5 disgyse, -gisee, -guisee, -gisy.
[a. OF. desguisié, déguisié, -sé, pa. pple. of de(s)guisier to disguise.]
Disguised, altered from familiar guise, mode, or appearance.
1. Wearing a disguise; disguised; masked.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 298 Þe Scottis sent ouer þe se A boye of þer rascaile, quaynt & deguise. c 1350 Will. Palerne 1610 Also daunces disgisi redi diȝt were. |
2. Of changed fashion; of strange guise; new-fashioned, new-fangled; monstrous; wrought, made, or ornamented in a novel or strange fashion.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter cxlvi. 11, Þaire degyse atyre, & þaire licherous berynge. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶343 The cost of embrowdynge, the degise endentynge..or bendynge. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas vi. xii. (1554) 159 a, There is none other nacion Touching aray, that is so disguisee In wast of cloth and superfluite. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxliv. (1869) 74 To roste a smal hastelet or to make a steike or sum oother disgisee thing. |
3. Strange, unfamiliar, extraordinary.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14787 To telle hit here hit ys no nede; Hit were a degyse þyng. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2715 So long þei caired..ouer dales & dounes & disgesye weyes. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) 74 Whi it is of swich facioun. It is a thing disgisy to me. |
4. Feigned, done to deceive.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xix. 459 Ȝone fleying is right degyse. Thair armyt men behynd I se. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxii. (1869) 84 Turnynge the gospel al up so doun bi disgisy woordes and lyinge. |