LekhoriLekhoriTo practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.
[P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
Feigned, simulated, pretended, false.
Where they may win ought : by fayre diſimilate ſhow, There they flickar, and flatter, in fauer to grow.
Inherited from Middle English dissimulaten, dissimilaten, from Latin dissimulātus + -en (“verb-forming suffix”), perfect passive participle of dissimulō (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) (see -at...
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