Feigned a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. “A feigned friend.”
    Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.   --Ps. xvii. 1.
 -- Feign*ed*ly adv. -- Feign*ed*ness, n.
    Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly.   --Jer. iii. 10.
 Feigned issue Law, an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill.  --Bouvier.

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