feignedness (fanednes)

The quality of being feigned; fictitiousne ; simulation; deceit. The church is not the school of feignedne e and hypo cHar mar, tr. of Beza's Sermons, p. 39. ricy, but of truth and sincerity. see finher = Sp. Pg. fingir = It. fignere, = t. fingere, feign, pretend, = D. fingeren = G. fin giren = Dan. fingere = Sw. finger a, daigs = E. dough ), Gr. θιγγάνειν, touch, handle, Skt. √ dih, smear. See dough; and see fictile, fiction, figment, figure, etc., from the same L. verb.] I. trans. 1. To invent or imagine; tter, relate, or represent falsely or deceitfully. = Well, has given me my quietus est; I felt him In my guts; I'm sure has feez'd me. Villiers , The Chances (1682). [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all senses.] II. in trans. To fret; be in a fume; worry: as, she frets and feezes . [Colloq., U. S.] feezel, feazel (fēz); n. [Also feese ; feezel , feazel, v .] 1. A race; arun; a running start, as for a leap. To leap without taking any race or feese , nullo procursu salire. Baret , Alvearie (1580), And giving way backward, fetch their feese or beire againe, and with a fierce charge and a ault to returne full butt upon the same that they had knocked and beaten be Holland , tr. of Ammianus Mar cell in us (1609). fore. 2. Vexation; worry; fret. [Colloq., U. S.] When a man's in a feese , there's no more sleep that hitch. Haliburton.