Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

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Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.
Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..
Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
True :: True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian..
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..
Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..
Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..
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