dissembled, ppl. a.
(dɪˈsɛmb(ə)ld)
[f. dissemble v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Feigned, pretended, counterfeit.
| 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 21 Leste he fall from his feyned & dissembled height. 1552 Huloet, Dissembled or fayned frend, dissimulator..fictitius amicus. 1697 Dryden Virg. Eclog. iv. 51 Nor Wool shall in dissembled Colours shine. 1805 Southey Madoc in Azt. ii, He..strove Beneath dissembled anger to conceal Visible grief. |
† 2. Disguised. Obs.
| 1631 Celestina ii. 130 Melibea is but a dissembled Angell, that lives heere amongst us. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §53 Crosses, afflictions..have ever proved, the secret and dissembled favours of His affection. |