Word Meanings - COUNTERFEITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden. 2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false

Additional info about word: COUNTERFEITER

1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden. 2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. Counterfeiters of devotion. Sherwood.

Related words: (words related to COUNTERFEITER)

• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FORGERY
  1. The act of forging metal into shape. Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• FALSE
  Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
• CORRUPTNESS
  The quality of being corrupt.
• CORRUPTIBILITY
  The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
• SEMBLANCE
  1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. 2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• FORGER
  One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. 2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
• CORRUPTINGLY
  In a manner that corrupts.
• CORRUPTLY
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.
• FALSE-HEARTED
  Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• INCORRUPTED
  Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• REFORGER
  One who reforges.
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.