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Originally posted by dar512
Except that it was used incorrectly. The word Troubleshooter was trying to use was 'dissembling'.
'Dissembly' is an obscure synonym for assembly.
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Oxford English Dictionary, 4th edition
dissembly1
[f. DISSEMBLE v.1: cf. next.]
Dissembling, dissimulation.
c1534 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) II. 198 Ther is no deceyt more depe and secrete than that which lurketh in the dissembly of understanding, or under soome colour of curtesy. 1588 ALLEN Admon. 21 [Elizabeth] dallied and abused by dissembly almost all the great personages of Europe, to whom..she proffered herself.
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02-12-2004, 04:09 PM
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