disguised
adjUK /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ · US /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/
7 senses
1
Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
2
Of things Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
3
Obsolete, Of dress Altered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
4
Obsolete, Usually, Of dress Serving as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
- under a disguised name
5
Obsolete Concealed, hidden, out of sight.
6
Obsolete Acting inappropriately, badly behaved.
- Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]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:
- And thus the loselles stryves, And lewdely sayes by Chryst Agaynst the sely preest. […] They mought be better advysed Then to be so dysgysed.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:
- He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine.c. 1600, Thomas Deloney, Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets:
- Derived terms
- disguisedly, disguisedness, ill-disguised, undisguised, undisguisedness