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Counterfeit   /kˈaʊntərfˌɪt/  /kˈaʊnərfˌɪt/   Listen
adjective
Counterfeit  adj.  
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."
2.
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."
3.
Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal."
Synonyms: Forged; fictitious; spurious; false.


noun
Counterfeit  n.  
1.
That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. "Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens." "Even Nature's self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself."
2.
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." "Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals."
3.
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."


verb
Counterfeit  v. t.  (past & past part. counterfeited; pres. part. counterfeiting)  
1.
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."
2.
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.


Counterfeit  v. i.  
1.
To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend. "The knave counterfeits well; a good knave."
2.
To make counterfeits.





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"Counterfeit" Quotes from Famous Books



... pass counterfeit money on me. You vagabond ... you thief! Be off! No, wait; I'll ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... counterfeit money, boys, made from the plates in the bag. They were taking these things to Solus, who had written them that he had secured a nice quiet retreat where they might work undisturbed. So you see, my boy," said Mr. Pender to Ted, "if you had made way with ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... the feeble new product, but this did not concern his successors— they were interested only in his technical principles. Moreover, in their naivete, they imagined they were improving on Jackson because their prints were counterfeit paintings while his ...
— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen
... appearance of a gentleman in dress and manners, purchases property from you, and with "fair pretences" obtains your confidence. You find, when he has left, that he paid you with counterfeit bank-notes, or a forged draft. This man is justly called a "forger," or "counterfeiter;" and if arrested, he is punished as such; but nobody thinks ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... gotten message to lavish on them; just as there can be no coward and craven more abject than a minister with any conscience who appears in the pulpit after an idle, dishonest week, to cheat his congregation with a diet of fragments seasoned with counterfeit fervour. ...
— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker


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