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counterfeit

Word definitions for counterfeit in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old French contrefait "imitated" (Modern French contrefait ), past participle of contrefaire "imitate," from contre- "against" (see contra- ) + faire "to make, to do" (from Latin facere ; see factitious ). Medieval Latin contrafactio meant ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A counterfeit is an imitation made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins:. Counterfeit may also refer to: Counterfeit e.p. , a 1989 EP by Martin Gore Counterfeit (poker) , a term in community card poker Counterfeit (Roedelius album) ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. i. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend. The knave counterfeits well; a good knave. --Shak. To make counterfeits.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 false, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. 2 inauthentic. 3 Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. n. 1 A non-genuine article; a fake. 2 One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 3 (context ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" [syn: imitative ] [ant: genuine ]

Usage examples of counterfeit.

Satan will once again try to counterfeit God by creating his own trinity: Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.

Wood, who was also Keeper of the Capital Prison, had a sideline as a counterfeiting expert, bagging boodlers for the federal bounty money.

They came back in September and paid Brujo seventy-five thousand in counterfeit money.

When he got there he learned they had paid off Brujo in counterfeit, thus cutting off the source.

Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.

I scarcely need to counterfeit it now: The spirit which doth reign within these limbs Seems strangely undisturbed.

He then took up the notes, several thousand pounds of counterfeit longtails, which he placed in the grate and set alight, setting fire to the pile three times in all to make certain that there was nothing left but a handful of ashes.

One pair of shoes was sucked off his feet in the swamp and became a suitcase full of nearly perfect counterfeit hundreds found by a couple of skateboarders in Venice.

If we have someone who used to cobble together ansibles out of paper clips and moly wire, or counterfeit some currency, I want to know it.

I gave a glance at his diamond buckles, which were considered real at Grenoble, and I saw directly that they were counterfeits of a kind made in Venice, which imitate the facets of the diamonds in perfection, except to people who are experienced in diamonds.

On Monday evening, the Immigration and Naturalization Service paid a visit to one of the busboys, who held a counterfeit green card.

BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this Among other good uses for which I have thought proper to institute these several introductory chapters, I have considered them as a kind of mark or stamp, which may hereafter enable a very indifferent reader to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit.

But then it collided with the institutionalized Jevlenese counterfeit being pushed northward, and it was destroyed.

Ramirez, if these are near exact counterfeits, how did you catch my twenties?

I may tell you frankly that I believe the stones to be counterfeit, and that your lie displeases me.