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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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   Feigned , a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. “A feigned friend.”  
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   Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
   Ps. xvii. 1.
   -- Feign"ed*ly , adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n.
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   Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly.
   Jer. iii. 10.
   
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   Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. Burill.  Bouvier.
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