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What is "pseudograph"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pseudograph

Pseudograph \Pseu"do*graph\, n. [See Pseudography.] A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pseudograph

"writing falsely ascribed to someone," 1828 (in German from 1809), from Late Latin pseudographus, from Greek pseudographos "writer of falsehoods," from pseudo- (see pseudo-) + graphos "(something) drawn or written" (see -graphy). Pseudography was in English from 1570s with a sense "misspelling."

Wiktionary
pseudograph

n. 1 (context graph theory English) A graph that contains loops as well as multiple edges between vertices 2 A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Usage examples of "pseudograph".

The Pseudograph makes municipal laws of the ten commandments, (symbol omitted) 1-10, regulates concubinage, (symbol omitted) 12, makes it death to strike or to curse father or mother, (symbol omitted) 14, 15, gives an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, strife for strife, (symbol omitted) 19.

Now, all men of reading know that these pretended laws of homicide, concubinage, theft, retaliation, compulsory marriage, usury, bailment, and others which might have been cited, from the Pseudograph, were never the laws of England, not even in Alfred's time.