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

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

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

Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..

Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..

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

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..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..

Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

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

Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.

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