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fraudulent, a.|ˈfrɔːdjʊlənt|
Also 5–6 -elent.
[a. OF. fraudulent, ad. L. fraudulent-us, f. fraud-: see fraud n. and -ulent.]
1. Guilty of or addicted to fraud; that wrongs another person by false representations; cheating, deceitful, dishonest.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 197 Dispoosid of kynde for to be fraudulent. 1474Caxton Chesse 96 He that had be a theef fraudelent was maad afterward a trewe procurour. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) II. 91 Agayne is the seruaunt fals and fraudelent. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 204 Is God so likely to concur with the fraudulent, the deceitful man, as with the laborious, and religious? 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 304 Productions..which were imposed on the world by fraudulent men as the writings of the holy apostles. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. viii, Fraudulent or careless issuers of convertible paper. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-bk. Prop. Law xxi. 163 Parliament has made fraudulent trustees answerable criminally for their acts.
†b. Of an animal: Crafty, deceitful. Obs.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 676 A Chamæleon is a fraudulent, ravening and gluttonous Beast.
2. Characterized by, or of the nature of, fraud; serving the purpose of, or accomplished by means of, fraud.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iii, He nought aduertith the menyng fraudulent. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2923 Abner of Joab was slayne be fraudulent dissymuiling. 1529More Supplic. Soulys Wks. 328/2 Their entent is fraudulent and false. 1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 5 Such guylefull covenous or fraudulent Devyses and Practyses. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iv. 15 Fraudulent deductions, or inconsequent illations. 1771Junius Lett. li. 262, I cannot..commend him for making patriotism a trade, and a fraudulent trade. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 288 The detection of a fraudulent balance. 1891Law Times XC. 460/2 Induced by a fraudulent prospectus to make contracts whereby he was damnified. 1893Sir J. W. Chitty in Law Times Rep. LXVIII. 429/1 The case set up is one..of fraudulent misrepresentation.
†3. Path. (After fraudulentus in the L. transl. of Avicenna). Deceptive. Obs.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. T j, The woundes are somtyme composed with vnnatural mater..somtyme vyrulent & fraudelent venymous fylthynes [cum vlceribus sordidis putrefactis & fraudulentis]. 1588J. Read Compend. Method 101 This auaileth..to all cancrouse and fradulent [sic] vlcers of the legges. 1615Crooke Body of Man 30 These are ψευδοπνεύµατα, Bastard, or as Auicen termeth them Fraudulent spirits.
†4. used as n. A fraudulent bankrupt. Obs.
1796Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 151 A scene where fraudulents may learn to thrive. |