| 单词 | to feign to oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto feign to oneself a. (More fully, †to feign to oneself.) To conjure up (delusive representations); to picture to oneself, imagine (what is unreal). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > indulge in fancy [verb (intransitive)] to feign to oneself1377 feign1557 chimerize1651 wanton1794 fantasticate1880 pipe-dream1910 fantasize1926 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 36 Somme..Feynen hem fantasies. 1525 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. ix. 15 (margin) They fain themself no pain. 1578 T. Timme tr. Calvin Comm. Gen. Cain..feigned to himself so many enemies, as there were men in the world. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 91 Either there are bugs, or hee faineth them. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 44 Some..feigned vnto themselues vaine dreames. 1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 200 Men have but deceived themselves..when they have feigned a Glory and a Beauty of the Church in other things. 1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living I. 499 A sane..mind..can feign voices where there is silence. < as lemmas |
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