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Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

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..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..

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

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

Homely :: Homely (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners..

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

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Would-be :: Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet..

Abelonian :: Abelonian (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..

Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o

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..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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