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counterfeiter|ˈkaʊntəfɪtə(r)|
Forms: see counterfeit; also with endings 5 -ere, 6–7 -or, -our, (-ure).
[a. F. contrefaiteur, f. contrefaire to counterfeit: cf. bienfaiteur benefactor. See -er2 3.]
One who counterfeits: see the verb.
1. One who makes fraudulent imitations (of coins, seals, documents, etc.); a forger; spec. a maker of counterfeit coins, a coiner.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xvii. (1869) 144 A..counter⁓fetere of seles. 1534Act 26 Hen. VIII, c. 6. §6 The counterfeiters of any coyne currant within this realme. 1605Camden Rem. (1636) 184 Coyne which was corrupted by Counterfeitours. 1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 269 The counterfeiters of the exchequer bills. 1875Jevons Money (1878) 60 To baffle the skill of the counterfeiter.
2. One who imitates (a person or an action) with intent to deceive; a pretender, dissembler.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) iii. iv, He cannot be a true seruer of God..but..a counterfaiter of Gods seruice. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 16 Satan is in many thinges a counterfaiter of God. 1575Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purg. (1577) 170 That..shamelesse counterfector, that calleth him selfe..Bishop of Ierusalem. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 224 A counterfetter and dissembler. 1611Cotgr., Cafard, an hypocrite; a counterfeiter of, or dissembler in, religion. 1719J. Richardson Art Crit. 185 To know whether a Picture be of..such a Master..: The best Counterfeiter of Hands cannot do it so well as to deceive a good Connoisseur.
3. An imitator (with no sense of deceit).
1526Tindale Eph. v. 1 Be ye counterfeters of God. 1548Hall Chron. 232 b, No man hathe sene a better counterfaytor or player in any Comedie or Tragedie. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. i. (Arb.) 20 A Poet..is both a maker and a counterfaitor. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xiv. (1873) 376 The counterfeiters have changed their dress. |