单词 | pseudograph |
释义 | pseudographn.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > forger, falsifier false writer1440 falsifier1532 forger1552 falsary1579 pseudograph1623 pseudographer1645 doctorer1817 cooker1849 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Pseudograph, a counterfeit writer. 2. A spurious writing; a literary work purporting to be by someone other than the true author, a forgery. Cf. pseudepigrapha n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > having no or wrong author's name pseudograph1814 pseudepigraph1851 allonym1867 anonym1867 adespota1882 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > instance of > wrongly attributed pseudograph1864 1814 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1327 All men of reading know that these pretended laws..which might have been cited, from the Pseudograph, were never the laws of England, not even in Alfred's time; and of course that it is a forgery. 1864 Athenæum 27 Aug. 274/3 The..cleverest..people are..deceived by pseudographs. 1866 Reader 31 Mar. 317/2 A pseudograph of the thirteenth century. 1905 J. Orr Probl. Old Test. viii. 249 Views differ as to how the book is to be regarded—whether as a pseudograph (forgery) or as a free composition in the name and spirit of Moses. 1922 P. Van Dyke Catherine de Médicis II. xliv. 405 There is not the slightest external evidence for its authenticity and all the internal evidence suggests that it was one of the pseudographs so common in the controversies of the times. 1981 Speculum 56 223 We may simply be dealing with a pseudograph, not a genuine document from the patriarchal archives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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