ppl. a. Also 5 feynit, Sc. 6 feinyeat, fenȝeid, -it, fei-, feynȝeit, feinȝed, feinyet. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. Fashioned, formed, shaped. Obs.
c. 1400. An Apology for Lollard Doctrines, 85. His feynar haþ hopid in his feynid þingis.
2. Fictitiously invented or devised. Also, related in fiction, fabled. Obs. or arch.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Compl. Mars., 173. This is no feyned mater that I telle.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fab., 3.
| Though feinzed Fables and old Poetrie, | |
| Be not all grounded vpon trueth, yet then | |
| Their polite tearmes of sweete Rhethorie | |
| Right pleasant are vnto the eares of men. |
1552. Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion. Feyned excuses.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. (1846), I. 398. Quhilk reportis ar all (God knawis) maist vayne, fenzeit, and untrew.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 101. A peculiar voyce which the French call by a feigned word, ‘Reere.’
1623. Lisle, Ælfric on O. & N. Test., Pref. ¶ 4. The faigned games of Homer and Virgil.
1670. Tenison (title), Creed of Mr. Hobbes Examined, in a feigned conference between Him and a Student of Divinity.
1728. Newton, Chronol. Amended, Introd. 6. The Priests of Egypt … had filled up the interval with feigned Kings, who had done nothing.
1820. Hazlitt, Lect. Dram. Lit., 19. To be found in history, whether actual or feigned.
† b. Contrived for deception. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 153/1. Feynyd sleythe of falshede.
† 3. Fictitiously or arbitrarily supposed; imaginary. Feigned price: = ‘fancy price.’ Obs.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 276. Aboue the necessite of nature they wyll haue theyr feyned necessaryes.
1607–12. Bacon, Ess. Riches (Arb.), 233. What fayned prices are sett vpponn litle stones.
1726. trans. Gregory’s Astronomy, I. 319. As many Degrees of the feigned Equator.
4. Of attributes, actions, diseases, etc.: Simulated, counterfeited, pretended, sham.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, IV. xxx. (1483), 80. Another thynge is a veray hede and another a feyned hede, formed of playstred clothe other of coerboyle.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, I. v b. They gyue out of theyr brestes grete and fayned syghes.
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Wks. (1587), 106.
| With deepe disceipt, and all her guiles she hyd, | |
| With fained teares, and Bartholomew she ryd. |
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Stat. Robert I., 33. Inquisition salbe taken, gif that be done be fenzeid furie, or not.
1642. R. Carpenter, Experience, III. v. 108. We must be seriously carefull, that these Acts in their exercise, be true; and goe to the bottome of the heart: not faigned, and superficiall.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 1, 12 April, ¶ 6. He, who can instruct us so well in personating feigned sorrows, should be lost to us by suffering under real ones.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. 414. Their mutual fears produced … a feigned reconciliation.
1803. Med. Jrnl., IX. 72. Feigned and Concealed Diseases.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 163. Mortal enemies … came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
† b. Prefixed to personal designations: That is such only in pretence; pretended. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 289. Youre trewe freendes and youre feyned counseillours.
1548. Hall, Chron., 211. A fained, false and a coloured frende.
1550. Crowley, Inform. & Petit., 175. Wee are but fayned Christians, we beare the name onely.
1647. N. Bacon, Discourse of the Laws & Government of England, I. iv. (1682), 10. Finding the Land large and good, they soon pickt quarrels with their Hoast, made peace with the Picts, and of fained Friends, becoming unfained Foes to the Britons, scattered a poor remnant of Christians.
† c. Of things: Counterfeit, spurious, sham.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 223. The Mosques and Hummums are in their cupoloes curiously ceruleated with a feigned Turquoise.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1732), 74. Took down the feigned Body from the Cross.
d. Of a name, etc.: Assumed, fictitious. Of a voice, handwriting, etc.: Disguised.
1559. W. Cuningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, A vj b. I have reduced it into the forme of a Dialoge: the names of the personages indede fained [etc.].
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. i. 7. To hide her fained sex.
1675. Marvell, Corr., ccxliii. Wks. 1872–5, II. 457. I cannot tell whether it be a true or a fained name.
1762. J. Brown, Poetry & Mus., vii. (1763), 141. The Poets … represent real Characters under feigned names.
1777. Sheridan, Sch. Scand., I. i. As I copied them myself in a feigned hand, there can be no suspicion whence they came.
1837. Lytton, E. Maltrav., 29. The feigned address he had previously assumed.
1609. Douland, Ornith. Microl., 24. The fained Scale exceedes the others both in height and depth. For it addeth a Ditone vnder Vt base, because it sings fa in A, and it riseth aboue eela by two degrees, for in it it sounds fa. Ibid. Fained Musicke is … a Song made beyond the regular Compasse of the Scales. Or, it is a Song, which is full of Coniunctions [i.e. accidental flats].
1674. Playford, Skill Mus., I. xi. 43. Increasing of the Voice in the Treble Part, especially in feigned Voices, doth oftentimes become harsh.
6. Law. (See quots.)
1483. Act 1 Rich. III., c. 6 § 1. Feyned playntes.
1542–3. Act 34–5 Hen. VIII., c. 4. The aforesaide false and fayned recouere.
1592. West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 5 G. The feined consent is by Lawe for some fact, when the consent of both parties appeareth not, and yet inasmuch as the fact is done, they are by Law both feined and deemed to consent.
a. 1709. Atkyns, Parl. & Pol. Tracts (1734), 317. The feigned Action … the Lord Chief Justice seems to justify.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. III. xxvii. 452. As no jury can be summoned to attend this court [Equity], the fact is … directed to be tried … upon a feigned issue. For (in order to … have the point in dispute … put in issue) an action is feigned to be brought.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), V. 519. Whether any common voucher be had in any such feigned recovery or not.
7. Mil. = FALSE a. 14.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, III. i. 35. But here let the muster-maister and trayning Captaine be well aduised not to suffer their shot to cary any bullet about them, in time of their trainings, and fained skirmishes, for feare of danger, that might thereby ensue among themselues.
1783. R. Watson, Philip III. (1839), 69. A third detachment was sent to make a feigned attack in another quarter, in the hopes of dividing the attention of the besiegers.
1876. Voyle, A Military Dictionary (ed. 3), 135/1. False Attack—A feigned assault made for the purpose of diverting the enemy from the real point of attack.
† 8. Of persons, their manner, faces, etc.: Made up to a certain appearance, got up for a purpose; hence, deceitful, insincere. Obs.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Anel. & Arc., 97.
| But he was fals, hit was but feyned chere, | |
| As nedith not to men soche crafte to lere. | |
| Ibid. (c. 1386), Man of Law’s T., 264. | |
| O feyned womman, alle that may confounde | |
| Vertu and innocence thurgh thy malice | |
| Is bred in thee, as nest of every vice! |
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 158.
| Whan they by fleight and by fallas | |
| Of feigned wordes make him wene, | |
| That black is white, and blew is grene. |
1530. Lyndesay, Test. Papyngo, 195. Hauyng sic traist in to thy [Fortune’s] fenȝeit face.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. xvi[i]. 1. My prayer, that goeth not out of a fayned mouth [1611 Ibid. Fained lips].
1536. Starkey, Lett. to Cromwell, in England (1878), p. xli. You schal neuer fynd me faynyd man.
a. 1605. Montgomerie, Descr. Vane Lovers, 46. Vhar thou finds tham faynd refrane.
1654. trans. Scudery’s Curia Politiæ, 124. Amurath … in a fained manner … seemed inclinable to offer me the Crown.
