disguised
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/, /dɪzˈɡaɪzd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/, /dɪˈskaɪzd/
- Hyphenation: dis‧guised
Verb edit
disguised
- simple past and past participle of disguise
Adjective edit
disguised (comparative more disguised, superlative most disguised)
- Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
- (of things) Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
- (obsolete, of dress) Altered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
- (obsolete, of dress, names, etc.) Serving as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
- under a disguised name
- (obsolete) Concealed, hidden, out of sight.
- (obsolete) Acting inappropriately, badly behaved.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
- Therefore to make complaynt
Of such mysadvysed
Parsons and dysgysed,
Thys boke we have devysed, […]
- 1521–1522, John Skelton, Collyn Clout; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 261, lines 574–576, 579–580:
- And thus the loselles stryves,
And lewdely sayes by Chryst
Agaynst the sely preest. […]
They mought be better advysed
Then to be so dysgysed.
- (slang, obsolete, by extension) Drunk.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Deloney, Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine.