Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..

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Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..
Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Conjurer :: Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand..
Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
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..
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.
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