Obs. Forms: 1 fácne, fǽcne, 3 facen, faken, (4 foken), 5 Sc. faikyn. [OE. fácne (oftener with umlaut fǽcne) = OS. fêkni wicked, ON. feikn awful, monstrous:—OTeut. *faiknjo-, f. *faikno-m: see prec.] Deceitful, fraudulent.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. cv[i]. 10. Swa hi alysde lifes ealdor of heora feonda fæcnum handum.
a. 1200. De Animo & Corpore (ed. Phillips, 1838), 8. [Þ]i tunge is ascorted þeo þe facen was.
c. 1200. Ormin, 12655. Þe frosst off fakenn trowwþe.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 194. Saladyn was fulle foken [printed foen, rime-word token], on him may non affie.
c. 1450. Henryson, Fables, Paddok & Mous, 58. Fair thingis oftymis ar fundin faikyn.
Hence † Fakenliche adv. Obs., craftily.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. xxvii. 35. Þin broðor com facenlice and nam þine bletsunȝa.
a. 1200. De Animo & Corpore (ed. Phillips, 1838), 8. Heo ȝeoððde fakenliche & þen feonde icwemde.
