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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
feyne .
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At the time of the Reformation many valuable examples of Church plate were cast aside by order of the Commissioners, by which "all monuments of feyned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry, and superstition," were to be destroyed.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Oh how exsquitely were the same Images cut, that oftentimes my eyes would wander from the real and liuely shapes, to looke vpon those feyned representations.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Cheef bellewedir/of feyned [Q] trwaundise this is to meene/my silf I cowde feyne
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Also in this yere a man of Alderbery feyned hym Cryst, whiche was brought to Oxon ', and there he was crucifyed.
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_Necromancers_ with innumerable feyned names for him and his angels, as in special, making _Sathan_, _Beelzebub_, & _Lucifer_, to be three sundry spirites, where we finde the two former, but diuers names giuen to the
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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And feyned he not God to be a protectour of euerie vertue, and a iust reuenger of the contrarie?
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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So Achilles being washed al ouer, saue anely his hele, by which his mother held, was in the rest invnluerable [invulnerable]: therfore by Paris was feyned to bee shotte with a poysoned arrowe in the heele, whiles he was busie about the marying of Polyena in the temple of Apollo.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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Wherfore his feyned report herein was and is to be taken as proceeding of his perverse iantasie, without ground of reason, truth, or apparency
The life and administration of cardinal Wolsey John Galt, Thomas Wolsey 1812
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- 16a - lourable and feyned goodwill, he telleth him a tale of the foxe, that by such a counterpoynt of craftines deceiued and deuoured the credulous kidde.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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Furies) of Poetes be feyned to be three, Persephone Alecto and Megera, which are sayd to be the Authours of all euill and mischiefe.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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