Hypertext Webster Gateway: "simulating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Simulate \Sim"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Simulated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Simulating}.]
To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to
assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit;
to feign.

The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to
which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated
fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the
assassin. --Macaulay.


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