Counterfeit

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\ (koun"t?r-f?t), a. [F. contrefait,
     p. p. of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra) +
     faire to make, fr. L. facere. See {Counter}, adv., and
     {Fact}.]
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     1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a


        resemblance to something else; portrayed.
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              Look here upon this picture, and on this
              The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. --Shak.
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     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." --Robinson (More's Utopia).
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     3. Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious;
        deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
        "An arrant counterfeit rascal." --Shak.
  
     Syn: Forged; fictitious; spurious; false.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, n.
     1. That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness;
        a portrait; a counterpart.
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              Thou drawest a counterfeit
              Best in all Athens.                   --Shak.
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              Even Nature's self envied the same,
              And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame
              The thing itself.                     --Spenser.
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     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.
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              Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
                                                    --Shak.
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              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.
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     3. One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates
        another; an impostor; a cheat.
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              I fear thou art another counterfeit;
              And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Counterfeited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Counterfeiting}.]
     1. To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to
        counterfeit the voice of another person.
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              Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
              At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. i.
     1. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to
        pretend.
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              The knave counterfeits well; a good knave. --Shak.
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     2. To make counterfeits.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  counterfeit
       adj : not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit
             emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of
             art"; "a counterfeit prince" [syn: {imitative}] [ant: {genuine}]
       n : a copy that is represented as the original [syn: {imitation},
            {forgery}]
       v : make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the
           signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She
           forged a Green Card" [syn: {forge}, {fake}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  296 Moby Thesaurus words for "counterfeit":
     act, act a part, act like, affect, affected, agent, alike,
     alternate, alternative, analogy, ape, aped, apocryphal,
     appear like, approach, approximate, artificial, assume, assumed,
     backup, bad check, bad money, base coin, bastard, be like,
     be redolent of, bear resemblance, bluff, bogus, bogus money,
     borrow, bring to mind, brummagem, call to mind, call up,
     certified copy, change, changeling, cheat, chorus, clinquant, coin,
     colorable, colored, come close, come near, compare with,
     comparison, concoct, consimilar, cook up, copied, copy, correspond,
     counterfeit money, counterfeited, cover up, crib, deceit,
     deception, deceptive, delusive, delusory, deputy, dissemble,
     dissimulate, distorted, ditto, do, do a bit, do like, double,
     dramatize, dressed up, dummy, echo, ectype, embellished,
     embroidered, equal, equivalent, ersatz, evoke, exchange, fabricate,
     facsimile, factitious, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, faked,
     fakement, false, false money, falsified, falsify, fantasize, favor,
     favoring, feign, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in, follow,
     following, forge, forged, forgery, four-flush, frame-up, fraud,
     fraudulent, fudge, gammon, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, go like,
     green goods, gyp, hatch, histrionize, hoax, hoke, hoke up, hokey,
     homogeneous, humbug, icon, identical, illegitimate, image, imitate,
     imitated, imitation, impostor, insincere, invent, junk, junky,
     kite, let on, let on like, like, likeness, locum tenens, look like,
     make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like,
     make out like, make up, make-believe, makeshift, man-made,
     manufacture, match, meretricious, metaphor, metonymy, mimic,
     mimicked, mint, mirror, misleading, mock, near, nearly reproduce,
     nearly reproduced, next best thing, not tell apart, not unlike,
     overact, parallel, partake of, paste, pasticcio, pastiche,
     personnel, perverted, phony, picture, pinch, pinch hitter,
     pinchbeck, plagiarize, plagiarized, play, play a part,
     play a scene, play possum, playact, portrait, pretend, pretended,
     profess, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put on, put on airs, put-on,
     put-up job, quasi, queer, reecho, reflect, relief, remind one of,
     repeat, replacement, representation, representative, reproduce,
     reproduction, resemblance, resemble, resembling, reserve, reserves,
     ringer, rip-off, rubber check, savor of, second string, secondary,
     seem like, self-styled, sell, semblance, sham, shoddy,
     shove the queer, sign, similar, similitude, simulacrum, simulate,
     simulated, smack of, smacking of, snide, so-called, soi-disant,
     something like, sound like, spare, spares, spurious, stack up with,
     stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution,
     succedaneum, suggest, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter,
     supposititious, surrogate, swindle, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic,
     take after, temporary, tentative, third string, tin, tinsel,
     titivated, token, trump up, tug the heartstrings, twisted,
     unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural,
     unreal, utility, utility player, utter, vicar, vicarious,
     vice-president, vice-regent, warped, wear, whited sepulcher