Crossword clues for forgery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgery \For"ger*y\, n.; pl. Forgeries. [Cf. F. forgerie.]
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The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.]
Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.
--Milton. 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.
--Bouvier.-
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
These are the forgeries of jealously.
--Shak.The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century.
--Waterland.Syn: Counterfeit; Forgery.
Usage: 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.
--Abbott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "a thing made fraudulently," from forge (v.) + -ery. Meaning "act of counterfeiting" is 1590s. The literal sense of the verb tended to go with forging (late 14c. as "act of working on a forge," 1858 as "piece of work made on a forge").
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of forging metal into shape. 2 The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially 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. 3 That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited. 4 (lb en archaic) An invention, creation.
WordNet
n. a copy that is represented as the original [syn: imitation, counterfeit]
criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
Wikipedia
Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive for the sake of altering the public perception, or to earn profit by selling the forged item. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. Forging money or currency is more often called counterfeiting. But consumer goods may also be counterfeits if they are not manufactured or produced by the designated manufacture or producer given on the label or flagged by the trademark symbol. When the object forged is a record or document it is often called a false document.
This usage of "forgery" does not derive from metalwork done at a forge, but it has a parallel history. A sense of "to counterfeit" is already in the Anglo-French verb forger, meaning "falsify".
A forgery is essentially concerned with a produced or altered object. Where the prime concern of a forgery is less focused on the object itself – what it is worth or what it "proves" – than on a tacit statement of criticism that is revealed by the reactions the object provokes in others, then the larger process is a hoax. In a hoax, a rumor or a genuine object planted in a concocted situation, may substitute for a forged physical object.
The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery. Forgery is one of the techniques of fraud, including identity theft. Forgery is one of the threats addressed by security engineering.
In the 16th century, imitators of Albrecht Dürer's style of printmaking improved the market for their own prints by signing them "AD", making them forgeries. In the 20th century the art market made forgeries highly profitable. There are widespread forgeries of especially valued artists, such as drawings originally by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse.
A special case of double forgery is the forging of Vermeer's paintings by Han van Meegeren, and in its turn the forging of Van Meegeren's work by his son Jacques van Meegeren.
Forgery may refer to:
- Forgery, the process of making false documents
- Forgery (Cryptography), a conceptually similar idea for digital authentication schemes
Usage examples of "forgery".
And most of the inhabitants of the Leather Lane area were involved, at least peripherally, in fencing stolen goods, a little forgery, of documents if not of money, in pickpocketing, burglary, cardsharping and a dozen other illegal pursuits.
The Claudian family had been particularly active, I noticed, in these forgeries.
Both the forgery and the encipherment in the correct key seem to be the work of Phelippes.
Peter Hargrave who fired me for forgery and insubordination, and Stuart, I HAVE NO JOB!
A few pages are given to the study of inks, and a part thereof is devoted to the researches of Carre, Hager, Baudrimont, Tarry, Chevallier and Lassaigne, to determine suspected forgeries.
Von Pilsen and his party should see him, and know that this last forgery no less than the others had succeeded in duping him into a punctual observance of the appointment, Mr.
Did he mean the forgeries, or was he simply another critic who thought the whole concept of the Plums was bogus?
I loved painting the furniture and the Scarlets, even the forgeries I was doing were more interesting than people.
Defeated incumbent Joe Carollo and the newly chosen mayor, Xavier Suarez, are battling over the mishandling and forgery of absentee ballots, which resulted in at least one verified dead person, Manuel Yip, casting a vote.
Usually when ballots of long-dead residents turn up, forgery is the presumed explanation.
Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.
As I went away I asked an official why he had been imprisoned, and was told it was for forgery, and that he would have been hanged if it had not been for a legal flaw.
On the other hand, the farmer ought to win unless it can be shewn that the receipts signed by Torriano are forgeries.
In other words, she declares that the signatures to these documents are forgeries.
The possibility of such forgeries is now very slight indeed, but vitiates early collections.