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<i>Henryson.</i>

<h1>Dissimulate</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.</def>

<h1>Dissimulation</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim`u*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissimulatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dissimulation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.</def>

<blockquote>Let love be without <b>dissimulation</b>. <i>Rom. xii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Dissimulation</b> . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and <b>dissimulation</b> a concealment of what is. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissimulator</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim"u*la`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who dissimulates; a dissembler.</def>

<h1>Dissimule</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim"ule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>dissimuler</ets>. See <er>Dissimulate</er>.]</ety> <def>To dissemble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dissimuler</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim"u*ler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dissembler.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dissimulour</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis*sim"u*lour</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>dissimuleur</ets>.]</ety> <def>A dissembler.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dissipable</h1> <Xpage=432>

<hw>Dis"si*pa*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dissipabilis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being scattered or dissipated.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The heat of those plants is very <b>dissipable</b>. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Dissipate</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis"si*pate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dissipated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dissipating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>dissipatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dissipare</ets>; <ets>dis-</ets> + an obsolete verb <ets>sipare</ets>, <ets>supare</ets>. to throw.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dissipated</b> those foggy mists of error. <i>Selden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I soon <b>dissipated</b> his fears. <i>Cook.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The extreme tendency of civilization is to <b>dissipate</b> all intellectual energy. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>