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impostor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impostor \Im*pos"tor\, n. [L. impostor a deceiver, fr. imponere
to impose upon, deceive. See Impone.]
One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character
or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a
pretender. ``The fraudulent impostor foul.''
--Milton.
Syn: Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle French imposteur (16c.), from Late Latin impostor, agent noun from impostus, collateral form of impositus, past participle of imponere "place upon, impose upon, deceive," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + ponere "to put place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Impostor is a 2002 American science fiction film based upon the 1953 short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film starred Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio and Mekhi Phifer.
"Impostor" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Astounding magazine in June, 1953.
Spence Olham, a member of a team designing an offensive weapon to destroy invading aliens known as the Outspacers, is confronted by a colleague and accused by security officer Major Peters of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth's defenses. The impostor's ship was damaged and has crashed just outside the city. The android is supposed to detonate a planet-destroying bomb on the utterance of a deadly code phrase. Olham, in an attempt to clear his name and prove his humanity, manages to escape his captors and return to Earth after they fail to kill him on the moon. Upon reaching Earth, Olham contacts his wife, Mary, but is soon ambushed by security officers waiting for him by his house. Out of options and with Major Peters' forces closing in, Olham decides to prove he is a human by finding the crashed Outspacer spaceship and recovering the android's body from the wreckage. Unfortunately, the discovery of a bloody knife by the wreckage indicates to Olham that Peters was correct and that the real Spence Olham had already been killed. The android, now aware of the truth of its existence, proclaims "If that's Olham, then I must be..." causing the bomb to detonate, the explosion visible even to the Outspacers of Alpha Centauri.
An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else.
Impostor(s), Imposter(s), The Impostor(s), or The Imposter(s) may also refer to:
Impostor is the 11th installment of the Precious Hearts Romances Presents series. The series stars Sam Milby and Maja Salvador. This is about people who got into an accident and end up changing faces.
Usage examples of "impostor".
I no sooner looked into this more ample statement than I detected the work of an impostor, and as, in the preparation of my work on Early Voyages to Terra Australis, my memory had become charged with all the details of the subject, I was able to trace not only the documents which, as he was not a discoverer in reality, supplied him with the materials for being a discoverer on paper, but also blunders in those documents of which I was cognizant, but he had not been, and which, as he had been himself deceived, clearly betrayed the utter falsity of his statements.
I am an impostor: when your hospitality received me into your house, it is true you admitted George Denbigh, but he is better known as the Earl of Pendennyss.
The Greek of Cephalonia, who certainly could not boast of being as wise as Ulysses, appears very well pleased, and gives more money to the impostor.
They say that sleep, that healing dew of Heaven, Steeps not in balm the foldings of the brain Which thinks thee an impostor.
Not seeing why a set of bonafide officers should gratuitously murder a chauffeur, I had been wondering whether the quartet might not be impostors, tricked out in uniforms to which they had no claim.
However, if Harvard replied that they had never heard of either man, then it was almost certain that they were impostors and involved in the gang that was looting Indian artifacts.
While doing that, Longarm could not help but be reminded of the murdered Horn brothers, and he wondered if this pair of impostors knew of their horrible fate.
The impostors flung more blorash jelly, capturing slaves and Jedi alike, turning the street into a tangle of confusion.
Anakin circled past and first sensed, then saw more impostors, three human and two Duros, shouldering their way out of the crowd.
Despite it all, she was holding two Yuuzhan Vong impostors at bay with a one-handed lightsaber defense.
The last of the Yuuzhan Vong impostors lay on the ground behind them, their masquers and vonduun crab armor hacked into smoking pieces.
The French are undoubtedly the most witty people in Europe, and perhaps in the whole world, but Paris is, all the same, the city for impostors and quacks to make a fortune.
This extraordinary man, intended by nature to be the king of impostors and quacks, would say in an easy, assured manner that he was three hundred years old, that he knew the secret of the Universal Medicine, that he possessed a mastery over nature, that he could melt diamonds, professing himself capable of forming, out of ten or twelve small diamonds, one large one of the finest water without any loss of weight.
She would have given all her goods to attain to such communication, and she had several times been deceived by impostors who made her believe that she attained her aim.
Only, the historian must understand that visionaries are neither impostors nor lunatics.