Feign
Feign , transitive verb
[Old English feinen, French feindre (p. pr. feignant), from Latin fingere; akin to Latin figura figure,and English dough. See Dough, and compare Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.]
1.
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.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
2.
To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. — Shakespeare
3.
To dissemble; to conceal. [Obsolete] — Spenser