† diˈssimuler Obs.
Also 4–5 -our, 5 discymuler, 6 -ar.
[ME. dissimulour, f. dissimule v. with AF. suffix -our = F. -eur, subseq. conformed to -er1.]
= dissembler.
| 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 408 O false morderour..ffalse dissimylour. c 1398 ― Fortune 23, I knew hir ek a fals dissimulour. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxii. 247 A fare speker and great discymuler. 1526 Tindale Rom. Prol. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 486 Such hypocrites and dissimulars. 1547–8 Ordre Commvn. 5 After the maner of dissimulers with God. [1662 Bk. Com. Prayer. ibid. dissemblers]. 1555 Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 441 If they be very dissimulers. |