单词 | counterfeit |
释义 | counterfeitadj.n. A. adj. 1. Made in imitation of that which is genuine; imitated, forged: see the verb. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] counterfeitedc1385 counterfeitc1386 trothlessa1393 bastard1397 forged1484 apocryphate1486 adulterate?a1509 mockisha1513 sophisticate1531 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 mock1548 forbate1558 coined1582 firking1594 feigned1598 adulterated1610 apocryphal1612 spurious1615 usurpeda1616 impostured1619 mock-madea1625 suppository1641 affictitious1656 pasteboard1659 sophisticated1673 flam1678 Brummagem1679 sham1681 belieda1718 fictitious1739 Birmingham1785 pinchbeck1790 brummish1803 Brum1805 flash1812 spurious1830 bogus1839 imitative1839 dummy1846 doctored1853 postiche1854 pseudo1854 Brummagemish1855 snide1859 inauthentic1860 fake1879 bum1884 Brummie1886 tin1886 filled1887 duff1889 faked1890 shicec1890 margarine1891 dud1904 Potemkin village1904 mocked-up1919 phoney baloney1936 four-flushing1942 bodgie1956 moody1958 disauthentic1960 bodgied1988 bodgied-up1988 1292 Britton i. v. §14 Deners countrefetz a nostre monee.] c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Harl.) 648 Stolen were his lettres pryuely..And countrefet þey were subtilly. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 192 This letter..Was counterfet in suche a wise, That no man shulde it apperceive. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 803 Many well counterfeit Jewels, make the true mistrusted. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 69 That it was counterfeit by some young counterfeiter. 2. Made to a pattern; fashioned, wrought. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > formed or constructed wroughtOE wroughtOE confecta1398 combinedc14.. complosec1420 made1428 counterfeit1463 edificatec1470 construct?a1475 featuredc1500 compact1531 fashioned1535 conflate1541 confectedc1550 framed1565 timbered1570 constitute1589 compacted1598 fact1600 coagulate1610 quilted1617 coagulated1633 conflated1652 composititious1657 made-up1677 compactilea1682 constructed1785 put-together1848 compaginate1877 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A basyn and an ever of laten cownterfet therto. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxvi. xvii Their shyppe boate curiously counterfayte. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Dii The water counterfet Lyke vnto the blacke Auernes lake. 3. Transformed in appearance, disguised. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 315 He..dysguysed hymself wonderfully..And whan he was thus torned and countrefayt, [etc.]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 120 She loked a longe the halle, Where she saw her sonnes thus countrefayte, whyche she knewe not. 4. Represented by a picture or image. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 199 For nothing can be kindly counterfait or represented in his absence, but by great discretion. II. Adjectival uses. 5. a. Of material things or substances: Made in imitation of something else, ‘imitation’, not genuine; made of inferior or base materials; spurious, sham, base (esp. of coin). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] > of materials, metals, etc. falsec1000 counterfeitc1449 copper1609 chemic1635 sham1699 shoful1835 imitation1840 lathen1843 simulated1942 society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [adjective] falsec1000 badc1405 counterfeit1556 queer1740 forged1817 wild cat1838 bogus1839 smashing1857 counterfeited1886 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 99 If he be not but countirfeet goold. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 209/2 Counterfayt heer, perrevcque. 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties iii. f. 144v Counterfet money in stede of good. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. iv. sig. Bb7v A Bait, which..proves but a counterfeit Fly. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 27 June (1972) VII. 184 A frame..of counterfeit Tortoy'shell. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 12 The Palace, which without these Counterfeit Pillars would be beautiful in its kind. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 399 That Paste with which they make counterfit Jewells. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 107 It is difficult to make any counterfeit gold or silver. b. Of writings: Forged, not genuine, spurious. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective] falsec1000 Apocrypha1387 counterfeit1393 surmised?1518 apocryph1549 unauthentical1549 suborned1550 apocryphal1590 disauthentic1591 suppositive1598 supposititious1600 surreptitious1615 spurious1624 unauthentic1631 ungenuine1665 ingenuine1675 nothal1716 apocryphical1719 fabricate1755 doctored1853 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 194 This letter counterfete The messanger..bare. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 579/1 Knowe whiche wer the verye true scripture of God, and which wer scriptures countrefet. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 116 Panetius believes them to be his own, not counterfeit. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. iv. xxx. 224 To distinguish those that are truly ancient and genuine from such as are counterfeit. 1857 F. D. Maurice Epist. St. John ii. 21 To discern between the honest record and the counterfeit one. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > that is a copy > modelled on or fashioned after counterfeit1463 1463 Act 3 Edw. IV c. 4 Countrefeit basyns, ewers, hattes, brusshes, etc. 6. a. Of things immaterial: Pretended, feigned, false, sham. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] fainta1340 counterfeit1393 pretense1395 feinta1400 feigned1413 disguisyc1430 colourable1433 pretending1434 simulate1435 dissimuled1475 simulative1490 coloureda1500 dissimulate?a1500 simuled1526 colorate1528 dissembled1539 mock1548 devised1552 pretended?1553 artificial1564 supposed1566 counterfeited1569 supposing?1574 affecteda1586 pretensive1607 false1609 supposite1611 simulara1616 simulatory1618 simulated1622 put-ona1625 ironic1631 ironical1646 devisable1659 pretensional1659 pretenced1660 pretensory1663 vizarded1663 shammed?c1677 sham1681 faux1684 fictitious1739 ostensible1762 made-up1773 mala fide1808 assumed1813 semblative1814 fictioned1820 pretextual1837 pseudo1854 fictive1855 schlenter1881 faked1890 phoney1893 phantom1897 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 70 Wiþ a contrefet simplesse, Which hid was in a fals corage. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Dviij That counterfet church standeth al by mennys tradycyons. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 17 This painted and counterfeit goodnesse. 1718 Free-thinker No. 39. 1 These Counterfeit Terrors often grow..to be Real. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 3) I. xiv. 205 I also warn you against a counterfeit earnestness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective] disguisyc1330 disguised1393 visured1577 latent1593 misguised1603 palliate1611 bemasked1620 dissembled1631 travested1656 incognito1676 incog1705 counterfeit1724 unconfessed1743 Waltham1748 camouflaged1918 1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth p. vi This Counterfeit Hand of my 'Prentice is not very legible. 7. Of persons: a. That pretends or is falsely represented to be (what is denoted by the noun); sham, pretended. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious falsea1175 feignedc1386 pretenced1425 pretended1461 counterfeit1530 personate1565 sham1683 personated1711 fictitiousa1781 pretence1853 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 209/2 Counterfayt gentylman, gentillatre. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxix This counterfeight Herault. c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 33 Perkyn Werbeck..a counterfeck Prince. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 117 Ire, envie and despair, Which marrd his borrow'd visage, and betraid Him counterfet, if any eye beheld. View more context for this quotation 1823 T. Chalmers Serm. I. 420 The counterfeit and the worthless Poor do a world of mischief to the cause of beneficence. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > engaged in pretence pretense1395 would-be?c1400 fictive1493 counterfeitc1515 feigningc1540 sembling1568 personating1612 shamming1682 gammoning1817 possum playing1856 simulating1875 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liv. 181 He is some counterfeyt varlet. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 18 A craftie, close, and counterfect felow. 1603 King James VI & I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 244 III. 80 I ame also glaide of the discoverie of yone litle counterfitte Wenche. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxii. 82 Fabulous or counterfeit Writers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] crumpa800 crookedc1290 counterfeited1340 courbe1395 crumpleda1400 wanshapena1425 courbedc1430 wrongc1430 crumped1480 mismadec1480 counterfeit1483 crabby1550 crab-tree-like1576 crab-tree1598 crabbed1601 bossive1658 stumping1852 arthritic1961 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 422/2 Hir ii handes were styffe and contrefayte. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxii. 635 A dwerf, the moste contirfet and foulest that eny hadde sein. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxi. 52 Harts beare their heads in diuers sorts and maners, some well growne..some other againe counterfet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > represented in art portrayeda1400 inpurtureda1529 importurate1553 counterfeit1589 mimicked1733 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 199 This kinde of representation is called the Counterfait countenance. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 53 Looke heere vpon this Picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. View more context for this quotation 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 86 To infuse into the counterfeit countenance of Miss Nickleby a bright salmon flesh-tint. B. n. 1. A false or spurious imitation. a. of material things or substances. ΚΠ c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiv. 160 Men counterfeten hem [diamonds] often of cristalle..But..theise contrefetes ben not so harde. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 498 Neuer call a true piece of golde a counterfet . View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 17 They haue no Beards but counterfeits. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. viii. 316 Every Coin has its Counterfeit, every Art its Pretender. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xi. 353 I cannot be sure that it is an apple. It may be only a wax counterfeit. b. of things abstract or immaterial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged > immaterial thing counterfeit1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 104 Counterfeit? there was neuer counterfeit of passion, came so neare the life of passion as she discouers it. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης Pref. sig. C Els Justice..were not Justice, but a fals counterfet of that impartial and Godlike vertue. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 169 One who does not value real glory, will not value its counterfeit. c. A writing, etc. that is not genuine; a forgery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged falsehood1340 counterfeiture1548 forgery1574 bastard1581 man of straw1599 counterfeit1613 imitationa1616 mock1646 pasteboard1648 sophistication1664 imposture1699 fraud1725 sham1728 adulteration1756 falsity1780 duff1781 shim-sham1797 shammy1822 Hodge-razor1843 pinchbeck1847 shice1859 cook-up1865 postiche1876 fakery1880 fake1883 bogosity1893 spuriosity1894 dud1897 cluck1904 rake-up1957 bodgie1988 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > instance of apocryphc1449 supposition1581 counterfeit1613 1613 J. Salkeld Treat. Angels 322 Though for the same also Origines be cited: yet certaine it is, that that Origines is a counterfeit. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 109 Citing (besides some of his owne counterfaits..) a saying of S. Chrysostome. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. iii. 15 He has the original Deed..the others are Counterfeits. a. One who imitates another for whom he passes himself off; a pretender, an impostor. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles feigner1382 pseudo1402 simular1526 simuler1534 colourer1554 counterfeiter1561 truphane1568 counterfeit1574 put-forth1581 pretender1583 impostor1586 idol1590 would-be1607 phantasm1622 farce1696 imposture1699 Barmecide1713 simulator1835 fraud1850 sham1850 fake1855 swindle1858 shammer1861 make-believe1863 hoax1869 economizer1874 make-believer1884 ringer1896 phoney1902 faker1910 shill1976 1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 30 Of which Epistles..the fifth and seuenth are directed too the counterfets and hypocrites. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 232 The two counterfeits, Lambert, and Perkin Warbeck. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 88 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Narses met him; and upon speech with him, found him a counterfet. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 36 The specious Pretences of Counterfeits and Impostors. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 86 The persons who could best detect the Counterfeit, if he [Perkin Warbeck] had been one. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > person who falser1340 false-bullera1400 money-makerc1450 multipliera1500 counterfeiter1534 false-coiner1574 coiner1578 counterfeit1606 ben-feaker1612 venter1629 voucher1673 falsifiera1682 utterer1731 figure-dancer1796 boodler1872 paper-pusher1928 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 45 To boile to death some cunning counterfait That with false stamp some Princes Coyne hath beat. a. An imitation or representation in painting, sculpture, etc.; an image, likeness, portrait. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation ylikenesseOE likenessOE anlikenessOE ylikeOE imagec1300 acornc1388 portraiturea1393 resemblancea1393 semblanta1400 counterfeitc1400 shapec1400 statuec1405 representation1477 presentationa1513 presentment1535 effigy1539 porture1542 express1553 effigium1564 representance1565 designment1570 icon1572 mimesisa1586 effigies1615 expressurea1616 represent1615 signature1618 proportion1678 representative1766 rendering1825 buggerlugs1839 effigiation1876 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 218 All þo þat ben maryed han a countrefete made lyche a mannes foot vpon here hedes..in tokene þat þei ben vnder mannes fote and vnder subieccioun. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 322 They never painted the resemblaunce or counterfaite of Gods contenaunce in table, or picture. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 115 What finde I heere? Faire Portias counterfeit . View more context for this quotation 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 39 An olde little counterfeit in brasse representing him being a child. 1620 T. May Heir in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) VIII. 126 Wear it about 'em as lovers do their mistress' counterfeit. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 99 Making more lively Counterfaits of Nature in Wax. 1838 R. Southey Inscriptions xlv, in Poet. Wks. III. 175 Him, in whose prophetic counterfeit Preserved, the children..may see their father's face, Here to the very life pourtray'd. b. figurative. A copy. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > an imitation resemblant1484 patterna1500 counterfeiture1548 counterfeit1587 idol1590 reduplication1592 copy1596 module1608 imitationa1616 mockage1615 echo1622 conduplicationa1631 transcript1646 ectype1647 mime1650 duplicating1659 mimicry1688 replication1692 shadow1693 reproduction1701 mimication?1715 repetition1774 replicate1821 autotype1829 replica1841 re-creation1915 retake1922 mock-up1957 reprise1961 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 226 In the outward man we haue a Counterfet of the whole world. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. Bv He looketh like the King..I neuer saw so liuely counterfet Of Richard Cordelion, as in him. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ix. 378 Entranced at such A counterfeit of his own filial love. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person misshapec1400 counterfeit1557 hodmandod1664 zad1725 freak of nature1847 wingy1880 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 73v/2 I am lame, I am crooked, I am balde, I am a counterfeyte. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 177 He had Dwarfes, crookebacks, and other deformed counterfeits..to laugh at. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] counterfeiturec1325 adulteration1502 sophistication1564 falsification1565 counterfeisance1590 forgery1594 fausonry1647 alchemisting1649 counterfacture1682 coinage1693 counterfeiting1697 faking1819 counterfeit1843 doctoring1963 1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar III. 309 Such originality as they have lies in the gift of counterfeit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). counterfeitv. 1. transitive. To make an imitation of, imitate (with intent to deceive): a. an action, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)] > action, etc. counterfeit1340 feign1632 feint1833 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4311 Þus sal anticrist þan countrefette Þe wondirs of God. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Iiiii By their enchauntementes..conterfeatyng the myracles of Moyses. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1069 That false Worm, of whomsoever taught To counterfet Mans voice. View more context for this quotation 1719 J. Richardson Art Crit. 186 Colouring and Drawing..are as impossible to be Counterfeited as the Handling. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vi. 49 Counterfeiting a sneeze. b. a thing: To make a fraudulent imitation of, forge (e.g. coin, bank-notes, handwriting). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)] > material things counterfeitc1386 marshalc1450 falsify1601 water1646 to quack titles1715 distress1943 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)] false1303 forgec1330 counterfeitc1386 deceit1484 falsify1502 forge1535 sophisticate1605 doctor1750 fabricate1779 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Harl.) 648 Stolen were his lettres pryuely..And countrefet þey were subtilly. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiv. 160 Men counterfeten hem [diamonds] often of cristall. 1590 R. Hakluyt Pict. Virginia Pref. (1888) Yf any seeke to contrefaict thes my bookx. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 88 If a man doe counterfeit the Kings money..this is treason. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 95 The prisoners which counterfeyted my L. Staffordes hande and seale. 1737 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 249 That it be felony to counterfeit the notes of this bank. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 6 Two attempts to counterfeit St. Paul's epistles. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 378 He counterfeited the seal of Pausanias, [and] opened the letter entrusted to him. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 43 The coins..would become dirty and easily counterfeited. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate adulterc1384 feigna1398 sophisticatec1400 infect?1440 counterfeit1495 adulterate?1526 dash1548 falsify1562 elay1573 abuse1574 base1581 corrupt1581 debase1591 adulterize1593 compass1594 sophisticate1604 allay1634 huckster1642 hucksterize1646 cauponize1652 alloy1661 balderdash1674 impurify1693 doctor1726 vitiate1728 sand1851 dope1898 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. xli. sig. Oviiv/2 [Saffron] is somtyme countrefetyd [a1398 BL Add. yfeyned] with a thynge that hyght Croco magina. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 64 It [sc. saffron] is craftely counterfeited by..adding therto..lead to encrease the weyght. 1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) i. xvi. 295 Crystal Mineral is often counterfeited, by mixing Roche-alom with it during the fusion... This adulteration may be known, [etc.]. 2. To make (anything) in fraudulent imitation of something else; to make or devise (something spurious) and pass it off as genuine; to forge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)] forgec1330 counterfeitc1386 feign1484 flamc1500 adulterate?1526 mint1593 fashion1600 fudge1674 sham1699 doctor1750 fake1884 to fake up1885 phoney1940 bodgie1969 society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > counterfeit [verb (transitive)] false1303 counterfeit1560 to gild over1574 c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 648 And countrefeted was ful subtilly Another lettre wroght ful synfully. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 192 This letter..Was counterfet in suche a wise, That no man shulde it apperceive. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 52 The fyn bawme is more heuy twyes, þan is the bawme þt is sophisticat and counterfeted. 1560 Sum. Certain Reasons in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 477 By continuing of the base monies, divers persons..have counterfaicted. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 267 He lost a Ring of Gold..he conceals the loss, and counterfeits another like it of silver. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 329 She..counterfeited the Letter she gave me as from her Father. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 86 §25 Every person who forges or counterfeits any certificate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > conceal by disguise [verb (transitive)] beclout?c1225 disguisea1375 veilc1384 dissimule1485 counterfeit1490 dissemble?1507 guisea1510 wry1567 discountenance1574 conceal1598 belie1610 dislikena1616 obvolve1623 transvest1649 travesty1665 mask1847 camouflage1917 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > conceal real state dissimulec1374 feigna1393 shroud1412 abuse?a1439 counterfeit1490 cloak1509 dissemblea1535 maska1593 dissimulate1610 disguisea1616 pretext1634 mascherate1654 veil1700 camouflage1917 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 172 Reynawde..contrefaytted thus his langage, by cause the duke Naymes sholde not knowe hym. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vi. f. 44 Men like players counterfeted and disguysed. 1679 G. Rose tr. P. Boaistuau Theatre of World i. 36 He counterfeits his voice, so that you would think it some other bird. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 365 I Counterfeited my Voice. 4. To put on (with intent to deceive) the appearance or semblance of; to feign, pretend, simulate. a. with simple object (a feeling, quality, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)] mitheeOE bipechec1000 huec1000 feigna1300 unlikena1382 counterfeitc1400 pretend1402 dissimulec1430 dissimule1483 simule?a1500 semble1530 counterfeit1534 dissemblea1538 suppose1566 countenance1590 mock1595 assume1604 to put on1625 assimulate1630 personate1631 to take on1645 simulate1652 forge1752 sham1775 possum1850 to turn on1865 fake1889 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 13 Bot if þay conterfete crafte..As be honest vt-wyth, and in-with alle fylþez, Þen ar þay synful. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 250 Hee, cownterfitinge great expedition to fighte, slipped away unto his adversaries. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 76 [The Hypocrite] counterfeits a smiling welcome. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. v. §1 To deter men..from counterfeiting a Prophetick Spirit. 1753 S. Johnson Adventurer No. 120. ⁋6 To counterfeit happiness which they do not feel. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. ii. 213 To counterfeit death. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 326 Signs of increasing prosperity..which could neither be counterfeited nor concealed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)] mitheeOE bipechec1000 huec1000 feigna1300 unlikena1382 counterfeitc1400 pretend1402 dissimulec1430 dissimule1483 simule?a1500 semble1530 counterfeit1534 dissemblea1538 suppose1566 countenance1590 mock1595 assume1604 to put on1625 assimulate1630 personate1631 to take on1645 simulate1652 forge1752 sham1775 possum1850 to turn on1865 fake1889 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. B.8 Counterfaytyng that truce was take, for the dayes, & not for the nyghtes. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. f. 110v False teachers..countrefeiting to preache my gospell. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 174 Take a good heart, and counterfeit to be a man. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xii. 189 These Templars were loth King Lewis should come to Ptolemais, though they counterfeited he should be very welcome there. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (reflexive)] feign1297 abuse?a1439 counterfeit1610 personate1710 to pass off1770 to hold out1829 to work off1894 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. i. 2 [They] counterfeited themselues to be the seruants of Christ. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. x. 218 David to save his life counterfeited himself mad. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. v. 253 Who counterfeited himself to be a Devil. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 22 The same man of sin counterfeiting protestant. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 10 The deepest policy of a Tyrant hath bin ever to counterfet Religious. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)] > lay claim to, personate counterfeitc1290 colour1419 personate1604 affecta1616 belie1616 sham1699 assume1714 personify1779 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 14/449 Bi him þat þou countrefetest. c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 122 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 329 Thise abbotes and priours..riden wid hauk and hound, and contrefeten knihtes. c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 765 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 248 He muste counterfeyt a fole in all manere. 1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Biv Tenauntes, not able to be lande lordes, and yet, after a sorte they conterfayte landelordes. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 20 To counterfeite and personate the second sonne of Edward the Fourth, supposed to bee murdered. 6. intransitive. To feign, make pretence, practise deceit. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] letc1000 faitc1330 counterfeitc1374 dissimulec1374 feignc1400 showc1405 supposea1450 fare1483 simule?a1500 dissemble1523 pretend1526 frame1545 cloakc1572 jouk1573 pretent1582 disguisea1586 devise1600 semble1603 coin1607 insimulate1623 fox1646 sham1787 dissimulate1796 gammon1819 to let on1822 simulate1823 possum1832 simulacrize1845 to put on an act1929 to put on (also up) a show1937 prat1967 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1483 I am seke in ernest..Quod Pandarus, Thow shalt the betir pleyne, And hast the lesse nede to contrefete. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy iv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 48 They will counterfaict to beguile their Brother. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 117 Are you not mad indeed, or do you but counterfeit ? View more context for this quotation 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 72 In this last scene of death, there is no more counterfeiting. 7. transitive. To take, receive, or have the appearance of; to ‘imitate’, be an imitation of, simulate, resemble, be like. (Without implying deceit.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > simulate [verb (transitive)] belikec1275 counterfeitc1374 imitate1598 dissemble1697 to go through the motions1816 to mock up1914 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. vi. 173 So as it ne may nat contrefeten it..ne ben euene lyke to it. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 555 More haf we serued..Þen þyse þat wroȝte not hourez two, And þou dotz hem vus to counterfete. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §32 F These Contractes..in respect of labor to bee taken..counterfait Location and conduction. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 40 Where glowing Embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bristol 33 A Bridge, which being built on both sides, counterfeiteth a continued street. 1772 W. Jones Poems 31 A golden ray..taught the gloom to counterfeit the day. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 166 Sleep counterfeited Death so well. a. To follow the example of (a person). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > follow a person as an example followOE suec1300 counterfeitc1374 to take witness by (also of)c1400 take1544 borrow1549 personate1612 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1119 Wol ȝe the childishe Ialous contrefete? c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 501 Now syngeth sire..Let se konne ye youre fader countrefete? a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1186 I may not countirfete Scipioun In armes. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. iv. 16 I desyre you to counterfayte me. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 222 Counterfeictyng those that doe speake distinctly. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse (1664) vii. 83 They..do apishly counterfeit, and resemble a Poet. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > follow advice, example, etc. followOE counterfeitc1405 to shoot atc1407 ensue1430 enfollowc1449 to follow suit with1655 to follow the lead of1863 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 139 She..peyned hire to countrefete chiere Of Court and been estatlich of manere. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. ii. 100 Ȝe contyrfeyt my reuth and pite eik. 1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue ix. sig. Dviiv Walde God thair wer als mony contrefatit thair repentance as dois thair vice. 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C Counterfeiting the maners of others. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy counterfeit1362 to take out1530 take1538 reduplicate1570 imitate1590 counter-make1595 ingeminate1625 replicate1661 recopy1684 takea1715 reproduce1838 duplicate1860 facsimile1862 carbon copy1914 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 133 Of alle maner craftus I con counterfeten heor tooles. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 50 Some making earth in mould doo counterfeite Brickwalles. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 519 Her complexion..neuer was for excellency equald, or could be counterfeited. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 32 Every part as artificially counterfeited as they can devise. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > model on or fashion after comparisona1382 counterfeitc1430 like?c1450 exemplify1566 pattern1567 afform1578 c1430 Freemasonry 22 Thys onest craft of good masonry Wes..Y-cownterfetyd of thys clerkys y-fere. a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.iv, in Whole Wks. (1587) Who had likewise huge and monstrous Trumpettes counterfetted, wherein they seemed to sound. a. To represent by a picture, statue, or the like; to depict, delineate, portray. Also said of the picture, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] workOE shapea1375 express1382 marka1393 resemblea1393 portraya1398 devisea1400 makea1400 represent?a1425 counterfeitc1440 to set on write1486 porturea1500 emporturea1529 story1532 portrait1548 show1565 decipher1567 portraiture1581 to set forth1585 emblazea1592 stell1598 defigure1599 infigure1606 effigiate1608 deportract1611 deportray1611 rendera1616 image1624 configure1630 exiconize1641 effigies1652 to take off1680 mimic1770 paraphrase1961 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 99 Cowntyrfetyn, configuro, conformo. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 276 It requireth an Apelles, to haue Alexander well counterfaited. 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie iv. i. 125 The pictures counterfeit men and women. 1660 tr. H. Bloome title The booke of five collumnes of architecture..Drawn and counterfeited after the right Symmetry and cunning measure of Free-Masons. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] sayOE devisec1300 readc1300 to make (a) showing ofc1330 counterfeitc1369 expressc1386 scrievec1390 descrya1400 scrya1400 drawa1413 representc1425 describec1450 report1460 qualify?1465 exhibit1534 perscribe1538 to set out1545 deline1566 delineate1566 decipher1567 denotate1599 lineate16.. denote1612 givea1616 inform?1615 to shape out1633 speaka1637 display1726 to hit off1737 c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1241 I can not now well counterfete Her wordes, but this was the grete Of her answere. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 17 Suche as writte farcis and contrefait the vulgare speche. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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