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forgery|ˈfɔədʒərɪ|
[f. forge v. + -ery.]
†1. The action or craft of forging metal. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) Hab. ii. 18 Because the forger therof hath hoped in his forgerie, to make dumme idols. 1671Milton Samson 131 Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.
b. concr. A piece of forged work. rare.
1850Blackie æschylus II. 184 On his shield, stout forgery of brass..He shows..The terrible Sphynx.
2. Invention, excogitation; fictitious invention, fiction. Now only poet. Formerly also with more reproachful sense: † Deception, lying; a fraudulent artifice, a deceit.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 Hee fabled sundrye reportes, Mee to trap in matters of state, with forgerye knauish. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 175 To sooth your Forgery and his. 1599― Pass. Pilgr. 4 Vnskilful in the worlds false forgeries. 1602― Ham. iv. vii. 90 So farre he past my thought, That I in forgery of shapes and trickes, Come short of what he did. 1633P. Fletcher Poet. Misc. 61 My never-slak't desire Will cast to prove by welcome forgerie, That for my absence I am much the nigher. 1782Cowper Retirement 323 [Speaking of insanity] 'Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes.
3. The making of a thing in fraudulent imitation of something; also, esp. the forging, counterfeiting, or falsifying of a document. For the use in Law see quot. 1769.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 920 Guilty of treason, forgerie, and shift. 1605Rowlands Hell's Broke Loose 5 Manes..published a fift Gospell of his owne forgerie. 1696Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 169 Severall very notorious acts of forgery haveing been proved against Dean. 1741Middleton Cicero I. i. 40 The..art..of raising a kind of enthusiasm..in his army, by the forgery of auspices and divine admonitions. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 245 Forgery, or the crimen falsi..‘the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right.’ 1853C. Brontë Villette xxxv, In their eyes..I write essays; and with deliberate forgery, sign to them my pupils' names. 1883Contemp. Rev. Dec. 842 It was natural that literary forgery should thrive.
b. The fact of being forged. rare.
1665J. Spencer Disc. Vulg. Proph. 83 A sign of the forgery of the whole Prophecy. 1845Graves Rom. Law in Encycl. Metrop. 756/1 The forgery of the Tabula Marliana is now generally admitted.
c. concr. Something forged, counterfeited, or fabricated; a spurious production.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 25 Their wicked forgeries. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 157 A pure tyrannical forgery of the Prelats. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 99 A manifest forgery was attested by a person of the most sacred character. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. iv. 92 He told several people in confidence that forgeries of their notes were abroad. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 4 That..one of the most excellent writings bearing the name of Plato should be a forgery..would be a singular phenomenon in ancient literature. |