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COUNTERFEIT, v.t.

1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the hand writing or signature of another, &c. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.

2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.

COUNTERFEIT, v.i. To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception.

COUNTERFEIT, a.

1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill or exchange.

2. Assuming the appearance of something; false; hypocritical; as a counterfeit friend.

3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as counterfeit modesty.

COUNTERFEIT, n.

1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an imposter.

2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens.

3.That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.


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COUNTERFEIT, v.t.

1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the hand writing or signature of another, &c. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.

2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.

COUNTERFEIT, v.i. To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception.

COUNTERFEIT, a.

1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill or exchange.

2. Assuming the appearance of something; false; hypocritical; as a counterfeit friend.

3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as counterfeit modesty.

COUNTERFEIT, n.

1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an imposter.

2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens.

3.That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.

COUN'TER-FEIT, a.

  1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill of exchange.
  2. Assuming the appearance of something; false hypocritical; as, a counterfeit friend.
  3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as, counterfeit modesty.

COUN'TER-FEIT, n.

  1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor.
  2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens. – Encyc.
  3. That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.

COUN'TER-FEIT, v.i.

To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception. – Shak.


COUN'TER-FEIT, v.t. [coun'terfit; Fr. contrefaire, contrefait; contre and faire, to make; L. contra and facio; It. contraffare, contraffatto; Sp. contrahacer, contrahecho.]

  1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the handwriting or signature of another, &c. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.
  2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.

Coun"ter*feit
  1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

    Look here upon this picture, and on this-
    The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
    Shak.

  2. That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

    Thou drawest a counterfeit
    Best in all Athens.
    Shak.

    Even Nature's self envied the same,
    And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame
    The thing itself.
    Spenser.

  3. To imitate, or put on a semblance of] to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.

    Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
    At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
    Goldsmith.

  4. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

    The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.
    Shak.

  5. Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.

    "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).
  6. That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.

    Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
    Shak.

    Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
    Macaulay.

  7. To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
  8. To make counterfeits.
  9. Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.

    "An arrant counterfeit rascal." Shak.

    Syn. -- Forged; fictitious; spurious; false.

  10. One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

    I fear thou art another counterfeit;
    And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
    Shak.

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Counterfeit

COUNTERFEIT, verb transitive

1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the hand writing or signature of another, etc. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.

2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.

COUNTERFEIT, verb intransitive To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception.

COUNTERFEIT, adjective

1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill or exchange.

2. Assuming the appearance of something; false; hypocritical; as a counterfeit friend.

3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as counterfeit modesty.

COUNTERFEIT, noun

1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an imposter.

2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens.

3.That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit

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