DISSEMBLE, DISSEMBLED, DISSEMBLER
ADJECTIVES
1500 • DISSIMULATE dissembled, feigned, pretended → obs.
1555 • DOUBLE-HEARTED deceitful, dissembling
1727 • DISSIMULABLE that may be dissembled → obs.
NOUNS
1225 • HYPOCRISIS hypocrisy, dissembling, feigning; a false of deceitful show
1325 • UNMITHE lack of concealment or dissembling; straightforwardness → obs.
1508 • DISSIMULANCE dissembling, dissimulation → chiefly Sc., obs.
1550 • DISSEMBLY dissembling, dissimulation → obs.
1581 • MISGUISING misrepresenting, dissembling, deceiving → obs.
1602 • DISSEMBLANCE a dissembling, dissimulation
NOUNS, PERSON
1386 • DISSIMULER a dissembler, one who conceals their real purposes under a false appearance → obs.
1500 • ARTIFICER a dissembler, a trickster; an artful, cunning, or devious person
1554 • COLORER • COLOURER a dissembler; a person who disguises or conceals the truth → obs.
1650 • PREVARICATOR a person who acts or speaks so as to evade the strict truth; a dissembler, a quibbler
1846 • POSSUM a dissembler, a hypocrite; a devious or crafty person → US sl.
VERBS
..888 • MITHE to dissemble, to conceal (as feelings, etc.) → obs.
1374 • DISSIMULE to disguise under a feigned semblance, to dissemble → obs.
1393 • MAKE IT QUAINT to behave or speak in an ingenious or elaborate manner, esp. in order to mislead, to dissemble → obs.
1572 • CLOAK to pretend, to dissemble → obs.
1573 • JOOK • JOUK to dissemble; to cringe, to fawn → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1605 • DAUB to dissemble so as to give a favourable impression to pay court with flattery → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1607 • COIN to feign, to dissemble → obs.
1611 • DISLIKEN to dissemble; to make unlike, to disguise → obs.
1616 • DAUB to dissemble so as to give a favourable impression → obs.
………. • DISLIKEN to make unlike; to dissemble, to disguise → obs.
1646 • FOX to play the fox, to dissemble, to sham → Eng. dial. & sl.
1746 • CANIFFLE to dissemble; to flatter → Eng. dial.
1807 • PLAY POSSUM to feign, to dissemble; esp. to pretend to be ill or dead → sl., orig. US