fingo

fingō finxī, fictus, ere

FIG-, to touch, handle , stroke, touch gently : corpora linguā, V.: manūs manibus, O.— To form, fashion, frame, shape, mould, model, make : hominem: ab aliquo deo ficti: alqd e cerā: homullus ex argillā fictus: pocula de humo, O.: fingendi ars, statuary : imagines marmore, Ta.— To set to rights, arrange, adorn, dress, trim : crinem, V.: fingi curā mulierum, Ph.: vitem putando, V.—Of the countenance, to alter, change, put on, feign : voltum, Cs.: voltūs hominum fingit scelus, i. e. makes men change countenance , T.—Fig., to form, fashion, make, mould, give character to, compose : animos: ex alquā re me, shape my course : ea (verba) sicut ceram ad nostrum arbitrium: voltum, compose , O.: lingua wocem fingit, forms : Carmina, H.: finxit te natura ad virtutes magnum hominem: me pusilli animi, H.: mea minora, i. e. disparage , H.— To form by instruction, instruct, teach, train : mire filium, i. e. cause to play his part , T.: voce paternā Fingeris ad rectum, H.: equum docilem Ire viam, H.— To form mentally, represent in thought, imagine, conceive, think, suppose, express, sketch out : animis imaginem condicionis meae: ex suā naturā ceteros, conceive : utilitatum causā amicitias: in summo oratore fingendo, depicting : ex suā naturā ceteros, judge : me astutiorem: ne finge, do not think it , V.: finge, aliquem nunc fieri sapientem, suppose : interfecti aliqui sunt, finge a nobis, assume , L.— To contrive, devise, invent, feign, pretend : fallacias, T.: causas ne det, T.: verba, i. e. talk deceitfully , S.: (crimina) in istum: non visa, H.: dolorem in hoc casu, Iu.: malum civem Roscium fuisse.