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Counterfeit   /kˈaʊntərfˌɪt/  /kˈaʊnərfˌɪt/   Listen
adjective
Counterfeit  adj.  
1.
Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. "Look here upon this picture, and on this- The counterfeit presentment of two brothers."
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."
3.
Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal."
Synonyms: Forged; fictitious; spurious; false.


noun
Counterfeit  n.  
1.
That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. "Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens." "Even Nature's self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself."
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. "Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit." "Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals."
3.
One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat. "I fear thou art another counterfeit; And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king."


verb
Counterfeit  v. t.  (past & past part. counterfeited; pres. part. counterfeiting)  
1.
To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person. "Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he."
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.


Counterfeit  v. i.  
1.
To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend. "The knave counterfeits well; a good knave."
2.
To make counterfeits.





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"Counterfeit" Quotes from Famous Books



... certificates for the purpose. These certificates are necessary; first, because ministers might not he personally known as ministers out of their own district; and secondly, because Quakers, who were not ministers, and other persons who might counterfeit the dress of Quakers, might otherwise impose upon the society, as ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... (as the apostle Peter saith) "hath obtained the like precious faith." Mark, that there is a great deal of copper faith in the world—much counterfeit believing; but the saints do all partake of "the like precious faith." As when a man hath but a sixpence in silver, or a crown in gold, those small pieces, for the nature, are as good as the greatest of the same metal; so it is with the faith of God's elect. And look as it is in grafting; ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10) • Grenville Kleiser
... things to all men, if by any means he might save some. Till Alcibiades ends the splendid eloge that Plato puts into his mouth with these words, "All my master's vice and stupidity and worship of wealthy and great men is counterfeit. It is all but the Silenus-mask which conceals the features of the god within; for if you remove the covering, how shall I describe to you, my friends and boon companions, the excellence of the beauty you will find within! Whether any of you ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte
... few things are so mischievous, as the sincere insincerity, the estrangement from fact, of those who have thus parted with themselves. It is worse, if anything can be worse, than hypocrisy itself. The hypocrite sees two things,—the fact and the fiction, the gold and its counterfeit; he has virtue enough to know that he is a hypocrite. But the post-mortem man, the walking legacy, does not recognize the existence of eternal Fact; it has never occurred to his mind that anything could be ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... must resist his own passions, but no one had shown him what arms to make use of in this moral warfare. He had been told to love virtue and to hate vice, but no one had furnished him with a criterion for distinguishing true virtue from its counterfeit. The temper of Edoardo was ardent and hasty, but flexible and weak. Nature had made him good, but society could make him very bad. He was like a ship without a good pilot—one to become good or bad according to ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various


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