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Share This guise Audio Help / gaɪz / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ gahyz ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, guised, guis·ing. –noun 1. general external appearance; aspect; semblance: an old principle in a new guise.
2. assumed appearance or mere semblance: under the guise of friendship.
3. style of dress: in the guise of a shepherd.
–verb (used with object) 5. to dress; attire: children guised as cowboys.
–verb (used without object) 6. Scot. and North England .
[Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME
g (
u )
ise < OF < Gmc; see
wise 2 (v.) ME
gisen, deriv. of the n.
]
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Outward appearance or aspect; semblance.
False appearance; pretense: spoke to me under the guise of friendship.
Mode of dress; garb: huddled on the street in the guise of beggars.
Obsolete Custom; habit.manner, fashion , from Old French, of Germanic origin ; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
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Share This Guise, Third Duke. Title of Henri de Lorraine. 1550-1588.
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c.1275, from O.Fr. guise, from Frank. *wisa (cf. O.H.G. wisa "manner, wise").
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Share This guise noun an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
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Share This guise [gaiz] noun
a disguised or false appearance
Example:
The thieves entered the house in the guise of workmen.
Arabic: على هَيْئَة، تحت قناع Chinese (Simplified): 伪装 Chinese (Traditional): 偽裝 Czech: přestrojení Danish: forklædning Estonian: maskeering Finnish: valepuku French: apparence, déguisement German: die Aufmachung Greek: μεταμφίεση Hungarian: látszat Icelandic: gervi Indonesian: penyamaran Italian: maschera, vestito Japanese: 身なり
Korean: 가장 Latvian: maska; maskēšanās; izlikšanās Lithuanian: persirengimas Norwegian: forkledning, dekke, maske Polish: przebranie Portuguese (Brazil): falsa aparência, disfarce Portuguese (Portugal): disfarce Romanian: aparenţă, deghizare Russian: обличие Slovak: preoblečenie Slovenian: preobleka Spanish: apariencia, forma, aspecto Swedish: sken, mask, förklädnad Turkish: aldatıcı görünüş
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Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Disguised ; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disguising .] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See
Guise .]
1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. --Macaulay.
2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
All God's angels come to us disguised. --Lowell.
3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. --Spectator.
Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See
Conceal .
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