dissimule

See also: dissimulé

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dissimulen, from Middle French dissimuler, from Latin dissimulō. Compare dissemble and dissimulate.

Verb

dissimule (third-person singular simple present dissimules, present participle dissimuling, simple past and past participle dissimuled)

1. Obsolete form of dissemble.
   • 1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, edited by Charles Whibley, Suetonius: History of Twelve Cæsars‎^[1], volume I, London, page 227:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• dissimulation

 

French

Verb

dissimule

1. inflection of dissimuler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Verb

dissimule

1. Alternative form of dissimulen

Portuguese

Verb

dissimule

1. inflection of dissimular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative