different between feign vs schesis

English

Etymology

From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint and fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophones: fane, foehn, fain (archaic)

Verb

feign (third-person singular simple present feigns, present participle feigning, simple past and past participle feigned)

1. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 2:

     She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign.

   The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.

   They feigned her signature on the cheque.

2. To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.

   He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.

3. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.

4. To hide or conceal.

   Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.

Synonyms

• (represent by a false appearance): front, put on airs
• See Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

• feigned
• unfeigned

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (skhésis, “state, condition, attitude”). See scheme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ski?s?s/

Noun

schesis (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
   • 1687, John Norris, Miscellanies

     For if that Mind which has Existing in it self from all Eternity, all the Simple Essences of Things , and con?equently , all their po??ible Sche?es or Habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a new Schesis in this Mind that was not before

2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him; mocking by imitating another's speech.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)

Related terms

• schesis onomaton

Anagrams

• Scheiss, schises