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Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.

Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..

Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.

Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..

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.

Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..

Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.

Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..

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