fingere: confingere (to compose or make up anything that is not true): comminisci (to invent anything that is not true): simulare, or assimulare, or, if an adjective follows as object, assimulare se; all either with accusative of the object, or with accusative and infinitive, or with quasi and subjunctive, as in the following examples (to pretend anything to be, although it is not; e.g., Liv., 1, 9; dissimulare being to conceal what really is). To feign that one is ill, simulare aegrum; assimulare se aegrum; simulare valetudinem (to pretend to be ill, without being so in reality): to understand well the art of feigning, artificio simulationis eruditum esse: to feign to be learned, simulare se doctum esse; simulare doctrinam: to feign to be happy, assimulare se laetum, or hilaritatem fingere: I will feign to be going out, simulabo or assimulabo, quasi exeam: I shall feign not to see them, and that they are not here, dissimulo, hos quasi non videam neque adesse hic.