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noun

Forgery n. (pl. forgeries)

The act of forging metal into shape. (Obs.) "Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear."

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. "These are the forgeries of jealously." "The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century."

Synonyms: Counterfeit; Forgery. Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forgery" Quotes from Famous Books

... only just over a hundred years since John Howard died; yet in his day persons could be put to death for stealing a horse or a sheep, for robbing dwellings, for defrauding creditors, for forgery, for wounding deer, for killing or maiming cattle, for stealing goods to the value of five shillings, or even for cutting a band in a hop plantation. And many persons who were innocent of any offence would lie in dungeons ...

— Beneath the Banner • F. J. Cross

... said the Spectre, or, in other words, the conjurer, whom we have already described,—"you must fly, for you are to be arrested this night. Our establishment for the forgery of bad notes must also be given up, and the Haunted House must be deserted. The magistrates, somehow, have smelled out the truth, and we must change our lodgings. We dodged them pretty well, but, after all, these things can't last ...

— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... and the absence of positive testimony. Here again there is no evidence that Mr. Laing has read any elementary text-book on the authenticity of the Gospels. He is "perfectly clear" as to the fourth Gospel being a forgery; again for reasons which he alone has discovered. [46] Paul is the first inventor of Christian dogma, without any doubt or hesitation. But the undoubted results of modern science ... shatter to pieces the ...

— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... explanation, but [Greek: bebekotos] can not bear the sense. The Cambridge editor suspects that these five lines are a forgery. ...

— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides

... so infernally grandiloquent to Old Man Grant that his hand actually trembled with emotion as he signed it—at my suggestion. You know I'd hate to be tried for forgery. Then I shook hands with him and started for Panama once more—only this time I kept right on going; and I didn't spare the fuel oil either. Why should I? It wasn't ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

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