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   Feign , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.]
   To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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   There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
   Neh. vi. 8.
   
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   The poet
   Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
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   To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
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   To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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