Definition of Dissembled

1. Verb. (past of dissemble) ¹

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Definition of Dissembled

1. dissemble [v] - See also: dissemble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissembled

disseizees
disseizes
disseizin
disseizing
disseizins
disseizor
disseizoress
disseizoresses
disseizors
disseizure
disselboom
disselbooms
dissemblance
dissemblances
dissemble
dissembled (current term)
dissembler
dissemblers
dissembles
dissembling
dissemblingly
dissemblings
dissembowelment
dissembowelments
disseminate
disseminate coccidioidomycosis
disseminated
disseminated choroiditis
disseminated cutaneous gangrene
disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis

Literary usage of Dissembled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"His preceptors gradually rose to the rank and consequence of ministers of state,8 and, as they wisely dissembled their secret authority, he seemed to act ..."

2. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"protested that he would revoke it, lest the parliament should have been separated in wrath, had dissembled, as was his duty, and permitted the great seal to ..."

3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"... they dissembled their resentment; and the am- bassadors on both sides, having all suitable honours paid them, returned to their respective cities. ..."

4. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"tended deputation, he dissembled his resentment, it appears to have rankled in his mind, and that he never forgave it, of whatever nature it might have been ..."

5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1817)
"... having dissembled nothing, but Sunday before Christmas, the other on the " From Cambridge, the 3d day of March, 167S. 85th of January following, ..."

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