spuriousadj.

Brit.

/ˈspjʊərɪəs/,

/ˈspjɔːrɪəs/, U.S.

/ˈspjʊriəs/

Etymology: < Latin spurius illegitimate, false. Compare Italian spurio, Spanish espurio.

a. Of persons: Begot or born out of wedlock; illegitimate, bastard, adulterous.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate

cheves-bornOE

misbegetc1325

bastc1330

misbegettenc1330

bastard1376

unlawfula1425

naturalc1425

illegitime1502

base1529

base-begot1534

illegitimate1536

misbegotten1554

bastarded1579

misborn1583

nameless1594

spurious1598

unfathered1600

misgotten1623

misbegot1626

baseborn1645

slip-sprung1665

born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675

side wind1738

love-begotten1761

born on the wrong side of the blanket1771

anonymous1869

sinistral1897

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 92 But can it be ought but a spurious seede, That grows so rife in such vnlikely speed.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) 166 Commonly such spurious ympes [bastards] follow the steppes of their bad parents.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. v. 21 Froth-borne Venus, and her Brat, With all that spurious brood young Iove begat.

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 26 A spurious Issue may by silence and patience be rendred legitimate.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 358 All children, that were spurious and illegitimate, were exempted from the same duty.

1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 77 Henry came of the spurious stock of John of Gaunt.

1814 R. Southey Roderick vi. 83 The spurious race Whom in unhappy hour Favila's wife Brought forth for Spain.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 792 Adultery by the wife followed by the birth of a spurious child.

absolute.1675 T. Plume Acct. Life & Death in J. Hacket Cent. Serm. p. xi The Lutherans..baptized none at home but the sick and the spurious.

b. figurative or in figurative context.

ΚΠ

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C^v Pert Gallus, slilie slippes along, to wage Tilting incounters, with some spurious seede Of marrow pies, and yawning Oystars breede.

1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 89 That love is but the spurious, and adulterate issue of a conscious and guilty feare.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 73 in Scepsis Scientifica 'Tis doubtful whither they are not the spurious issue of some more modern Author.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §2. 99 In those regions the offspring of fancy is legitimate, but in philosophy it is all spurious.

c. Characterized by bastardy or illegitimacy.

ΚΠ

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 707/2 Aridæus..was of spurious birth.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon i. 64 He knew not for what end Calderon had forced upon him the honours of spurious parentship.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral viii. 203 Edmond Bonner was of obscure, according to his enemies.., of spurious birth, the son of a priest.

d. Supposititious. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > fraudulently substituted

suppositious1604

supposititious1615

subdititious1622

spurious1834

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 160 I cannot help surmising, that my brother..has resolved to produce to the world a spurious child as his own.

2. Having an illegitimate or irregular origin; not properly qualified or constituted.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > unwarranted or unjustifiable > not having proper origin or constitution

bastard1534

bastardly1561

spurious1602

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. L4 Teach thy Incubus to Poëtize, And throwe abroad thy spurious Snotteries, Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth.

a1640 P. Massinger Guardian ii. ii. 29 in 3 New Playes (1655) I apprehend what thou wouldst say: I want all As means to quench the spurious fire that burns here.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 2 in Justice Vindicated That Providence should so direct those spurious and imperfect animals, and but of yesterdays being,..to fear and avoid those who are enemies and prey upon them.

1699 J. Pomfret On Marriage 21 Achates' choice..from no spurious passion came, But was the product of a noble flame.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 18 That a spurious race of strangers and plebeians was left to possess the solitude of the ancient capital.

in combination.1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. xxxiii. 186 An adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and a spurious-hearted Christian after a Prophecie.

3. Superficially resembling or simulating, but lacking the genuine character or qualities of, something; not true or genuine; false, sham, counterfeit:

a. Of material things.Frequently in more or less specific use in Anatomy, Botany, etc.

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

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 394 They are diuided into true or legitimate, & bastard or spurious ribs.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 107 Making them a kind of Spurious Planets.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xvii. 353 The..bastard Ribs..do stick one to the other,..the last excepted, which is the least, and sticks to none, and therefore 'tis truly spurious.

1782 W. Cowper Self-diffidence 37 Spurious gems our hopes entice, While we scorn the pearl of price.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 57 Carbon bituminated, impregnated with a notable proportion of stony matter. Spurious Coal.

1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 284 There are several spurious kinds of berries, whose pulp is not properly a part of the fruit, but originates from some other organ.

1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 47 Traders..are often cheated, by having a kind of spurious, or bastard wood without dye, imposed upon them.

1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 123 False or spurious dissepiments occur occasionally both in compound and simple ovaries.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 52 The spurious gun may be either a gun represented as being of a quality it is not, or as a production of a maker other than the real one.

b. Of qualities, conditions, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective]

fairOE

seeming1340

feignedc1374

colourablea1400

whitea1413

coloured?c1425

satiablec1487

provable1588

specious1611

well-seeminga1616

superficial1616

meretricious1633

glosseda1640

probable1639

spurious1646

fucatious1654

ostensible1762

well-looking1811

semblant1840

1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 28 This scourge, which is gilded with the specious, but spurious compellation of a glorious, thorow, second Reformation.

1657 T. Wall Comment on Times 6 When this comes into competition, that spurious concord which is knit by secular respects..is suddenly overthrown.

1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 11 That spurious Virtue in a Maid; A Virtue but at second hand.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 211 The City known to us under the spurious name of Algiers.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly in Wks. I. 483 States~men..exist by every thing which is spurious, fictitious, and false.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 205 It is only spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive.

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 152 He could lash himself into a spurious anger.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 483 There appear to be three pleasures, one genuine and two spurious.

c. In the specific names of animals, birds, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > [adjective] > not true (in specific names of)

spurious1781

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 37 In the southern and western provinces of Russia is a mixed breed of hares, between this and the common species. [margin.] Spurious [Hare].

1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. 214 The Wood Grous, as well as the Spurious Grous, were extant in Scotland.

1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 476 Spurious Narwhal (Monodon Spurius), a species most allied to the Narwhal, but not perhaps, strictly speaking, of the same genus.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 579 Notelæa ligustrina,..‘Spurious Olive’.

d. In medical or pathological use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > of illness: counterfeit

spurious1693

1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 190 Spurii Morbi, as Spurious fevers, a Pleurisie, a Bastard Quinsie, and the like.

1790 Med. Communications 2 455 A woman in labour is to be treated as if suffering spurious pains, so long as the os uteri..remains..close.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 69 That sort of cow-pock, which had all the characteristics of the spurious kind.

1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy 126 Spurious pregnancy is by no means an unfrequent disorder.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 29 It is necessary to mention certain morbid conditions which are known as spurious dropsies.

a. Of a writing, etc.: Not really proceeding from its reputed origin, source, or author; not genuine or authentic; forged.

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

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 43 Authors and writings, either justly suspected, or evidently spurious and counterfeit.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 72 I insist not on the spurious Treatises that are ascribed to him.

a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. i. vii As for the spurious Acts of Pilate, now extant.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 2 A situation in which it is more difficult to distinguish spurious from genuine writings.

1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 45 The vexed question concerning his reputed works—what are genuine, what spurious.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1877) II. App. 579 The writ is clearly spurious, but it is one of those cases in which a spurious document proves something.

b. Similarly of words or passages.

ΚΠ

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 155 Though the place be most express for Infant Baptism,..yet it is either spurious or interpolate.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 79 That he should be able to distinguish what is Genuine in them from what is Spurious.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 91 The lines, or even the words supposed to be spurious.

1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 519 (note) The words καὶ τὸν νύχιον had been marked as spurious in a former edition of this play.

5. Characterized by spuriousness or falseness.

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

1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 439/2 When instances of spurious pretensions came in his way.

1860 W. G. Ward Nat. & Grace i. 36 We may distinguish these true primary premisses from spurious counterfeits.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. ci Messrs... caution buyers against Spurious Imitations of their well-known Apparatus.

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单词	spurious
释义	spuriousadj. Brit. /ˈspjʊərɪəs/, /ˈspjɔːrɪəs/, U.S. /ˈspjʊriəs/ Etymology: < Latin spurius illegitimate, false. Compare Italian spurio, Spanish espurio. 1. a. Of persons: Begot or born out of wedlock; illegitimate, bastard, adulterous. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 92 But can it be ought but a spurious seede, That grows so rife in such vnlikely speed. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) 166 Commonly such spurious ympes [bastards] follow the steppes of their bad parents. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. v. 21 Froth-borne Venus, and her Brat, With all that spurious brood young Iove begat. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 26 A spurious Issue may by silence and patience be rendred legitimate. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 358 All children, that were spurious and illegitimate, were exempted from the same duty. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 77 Henry came of the spurious stock of John of Gaunt. 1814 R. Southey Roderick vi. 83 The spurious race Whom in unhappy hour Favila's wife Brought forth for Spain. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 792 Adultery by the wife followed by the birth of a spurious child. absolute.1675 T. Plume Acct. Life & Death in J. Hacket Cent. Serm. p. xi The Lutherans..baptized none at home but the sick and the spurious. b. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C^v Pert Gallus, slilie slippes along, to wage Tilting incounters, with some spurious seede Of marrow pies, and yawning Oystars breede. 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 89 That love is but the spurious, and adulterate issue of a conscious and guilty feare. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 73 in Scepsis Scientifica 'Tis doubtful whither they are not the spurious issue of some more modern Author. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind i. §2. 99 In those regions the offspring of fancy is legitimate, but in philosophy it is all spurious. c. Characterized by bastardy or illegitimacy. ΚΠ 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 707/2 Aridæus..was of spurious birth. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon i. 64 He knew not for what end Calderon had forced upon him the honours of spurious parentship. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral viii. 203 Edmond Bonner was of obscure, according to his enemies.., of spurious birth, the son of a priest. d. Supposititious. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > fraudulently substituted suppositious1604 supposititious1615 subdititious1622 spurious1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 160 I cannot help surmising, that my brother..has resolved to produce to the world a spurious child as his own. 2. Having an illegitimate or irregular origin; not properly qualified or constituted. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > unwarranted or unjustifiable > not having proper origin or constitution bastard1534 bastardly1561 spurious1602 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. L4 Teach thy Incubus to Poëtize, And throwe abroad thy spurious Snotteries, Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger Guardian ii. ii. 29 in 3 New Playes (1655) I apprehend what thou wouldst say: I want all As means to quench the spurious fire that burns here. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 2 in Justice Vindicated That Providence should so direct those spurious and imperfect animals, and but of yesterdays being,..to fear and avoid those who are enemies and prey upon them. 1699 J. Pomfret On Marriage 21 Achates' choice..from no spurious passion came, But was the product of a noble flame. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 18 That a spurious race of strangers and plebeians was left to possess the solitude of the ancient capital. in combination.1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. xxxiii. 186 An adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and a spurious-hearted Christian after a Prophecie. 3. Superficially resembling or simulating, but lacking the genuine character or qualities of, something; not true or genuine; false, sham, counterfeit: a. Of material things.Frequently in more or less specific use in Anatomy, Botany, etc. 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 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 394 They are diuided into true or legitimate, & bastard or spurious ribs. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 107 Making them a kind of Spurious Planets. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xvii. 353 The..bastard Ribs..do stick one to the other,..the last excepted, which is the least, and sticks to none, and therefore 'tis truly spurious. 1782 W. Cowper Self-diffidence 37 Spurious gems our hopes entice, While we scorn the pearl of price. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 57 Carbon bituminated, impregnated with a notable proportion of stony matter. Spurious Coal. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 284 There are several spurious kinds of berries, whose pulp is not properly a part of the fruit, but originates from some other organ. 1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 47 Traders..are often cheated, by having a kind of spurious, or bastard wood without dye, imposed upon them. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 123 False or spurious dissepiments occur occasionally both in compound and simple ovaries. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 52 The spurious gun may be either a gun represented as being of a quality it is not, or as a production of a maker other than the real one. b. Of qualities, conditions, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] fairOE seeming1340 feignedc1374 colourablea1400 whitea1413 coloured?c1425 satiablec1487 provable1588 specious1611 well-seeminga1616 superficial1616 meretricious1633 glosseda1640 probable1639 spurious1646 fucatious1654 ostensible1762 well-looking1811 semblant1840 1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 28 This scourge, which is gilded with the specious, but spurious compellation of a glorious, thorow, second Reformation. 1657 T. Wall Comment on Times 6 When this comes into competition, that spurious concord which is knit by secular respects..is suddenly overthrown. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 11 That spurious Virtue in a Maid; A Virtue but at second hand. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 211 The City known to us under the spurious name of Algiers. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly in Wks. I. 483 States~men..exist by every thing which is spurious, fictitious, and false. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 205 It is only spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 152 He could lash himself into a spurious anger. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 483 There appear to be three pleasures, one genuine and two spurious. c. In the specific names of animals, birds, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [adjective] > not true (in specific names of) spurious1781 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 37 In the southern and western provinces of Russia is a mixed breed of hares, between this and the common species. [margin.] Spurious [Hare]. 1787 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. I. 214 The Wood Grous, as well as the Spurious Grous, were extant in Scotland. 1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 476 Spurious Narwhal (Monodon Spurius), a species most allied to the Narwhal, but not perhaps, strictly speaking, of the same genus. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 579 Notelæa ligustrina,..‘Spurious Olive’. d. In medical or pathological use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > of illness: counterfeit spurious1693 1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 190 Spurii Morbi, as Spurious fevers, a Pleurisie, a Bastard Quinsie, and the like. 1790 Med. Communications 2 455 A woman in labour is to be treated as if suffering spurious pains, so long as the os uteri..remains..close. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 69 That sort of cow-pock, which had all the characteristics of the spurious kind. 1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy 126 Spurious pregnancy is by no means an unfrequent disorder. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 29 It is necessary to mention certain morbid conditions which are known as spurious dropsies. 4. a. Of a writing, etc.: Not really proceeding from its reputed origin, source, or author; not genuine or authentic; forged. 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 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 43 Authors and writings, either justly suspected, or evidently spurious and counterfeit. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 72 I insist not on the spurious Treatises that are ascribed to him. a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. i. vii As for the spurious Acts of Pilate, now extant. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 2 A situation in which it is more difficult to distinguish spurious from genuine writings. 1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 45 The vexed question concerning his reputed works—what are genuine, what spurious. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1877) II. App. 579 The writ is clearly spurious, but it is one of those cases in which a spurious document proves something. b. Similarly of words or passages. ΚΠ 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 155 Though the place be most express for Infant Baptism,..yet it is either spurious or interpolate. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 79 That he should be able to distinguish what is Genuine in them from what is Spurious. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 91 The lines, or even the words supposed to be spurious. 1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 519 (note) The words καὶ τὸν νύχιον had been marked as spurious in a former edition of this play. 5. Characterized by spuriousness or falseness. 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 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 439/2 When instances of spurious pretensions came in his way. 1860 W. G. Ward Nat. & Grace i. 36 We may distinguish these true primary premisses from spurious counterfeits. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. ci Messrs... caution buyers against Spurious Imitations of their well-known Apparatus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598
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