simulate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SIM'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin simulo, from similis, like.] To feign; to counterfeits; to assume the mere appearance of something, without the reality. The wicked often simulate the virtuous and good. SIM'ULATE, adjective [Latin simulato.]Feigned; pretended; assumed artificially.
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