pseudographern.
/s(j)uːˈdɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /suˈdɑɡrəfər/ rare.
A false or erroneous writer; esp. a person who counterfeits another's writing, a forger.
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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
1645 J. Pell Let. 25 Nov. in J. Pell Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 440 Thinking myself able to..refute all pseudographers.
1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 17 He must seek his Substantive, for his Adjective (thousands) inter oves & boves, & cœtera pecora campi, or such like creatures, or otherwise suffer the shame of a Pseudographer, in those words.
1680 (title) Mendacimastix or a whip for the colosal lyer being a brief answer, to the relation of two invisible old men..: in a letter sent from a friend in London, to the French pseudographer.
1818 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 438 M. Villette, a pseudo-grapher of the greatest eminence, counterfeited the handwriting and signature of Marie Antionette.
1890 A. C. McGiffert in tr. Eusebius Church Hist. xxxix, in P. Schaff & H. Wace Sel. Libr. Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers I. 170/1 Clement's name was a favorite one with pseudographers of the early Church, and works of all kinds were published under his name.
1995 Mod. Lang. Stud. 25 27 Sodomites and pseudographers..are mutually implicated..as frauds inimical to the ‘natural’ social order.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Sept. 21 The little drawing of the cloud-bedecked eponymous columnar pseudographer, with quill and ancient wineglass to hand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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