dissimule

present singular third person dissimules · participle present dissimuling · participle past dissimuled · past dissimuled

1. obsoleteObsolete form of dissemble.

   As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd.

   a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 104

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   Howbeit, he bare it out a pretie while: notwithstanding that after he was come downe so farre as to Misenum, he pretermitted nothing of his ordinary and daily manner, no not so much as his feasting and other pleasures: partly upon an intemperate humour of his owne, and in part to dissimule and palliate his weaknesse.

   1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, edited by Charles Whibley, Suetonius: History of Twelve Cæsars, volume I, London, page 227