† diˈssemblable, a. (and n.) Obs.
[a. OF. dessemblable (12th c.), in 14th c. dissemblable, f. dessembler to be unlike, dissemble v.2, after semblable like.]
Unlike, dissimilar, various. Hence absol. as n.
| 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) i. iv. 5 Moche merueylous lyght I sawe of dissemblable maner. 1549 Chaloner Erasm. on Folly N j b, How amongs theim selves to be dissemblable [inter se dissimiles]. 1566 Drant Horace Sat. iv. C ij b, Dissemblable to Sectans sorte [Sectani dissimilis]. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 238 Dissemblable and in effect contrary. 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xxxviii. (1632) 118 A man must imitate the vicious, or hate them..to resemble them is perilous, because they are many, and to hate many is hazzardous, because they are dissemblable. 1928 V. Woolf Orlando iv. 161 What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables! |