Definition of "dissimule" verb third-person singular simple present dissimules , present participle dissimuling , simple past and past participle dissimuled
Obsolete form of dissemble . quotations examples
Quotations Howbeit , he bare it out a pretie while : notwithstanding that after he was come downe so farre as to Misenum , he pretermitted nothing of his ordinary and daily manner , no not so much as his feasting and other pleasures : partly upon an intemperate humour of his owne , and in part to dissimule and palliate his weaknesse .
1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, edited by Charles Whibley, Suetonius: History of Twelve Cæsars, volume I, London, page 227
As if to cure a Leprosie , a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child : So in the Church , some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience , then can be discover 'd .
a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Timber: or, Discoveries; Made Upon Men and Matter”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, page 104