Forged vs Spuria - What's the difference?
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Fake (as documents).
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Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
To force forward against opposition.
Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.
* 1790 : The Gentleman’s Magazine , volume 67,
As an adjective forged
is fake (as documents).As a verb forged
is to force forward against opposition.As a noun spuria is
spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.forged
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
- Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
- The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(head)- He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.
spuria
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)page 292
- The la?t will and te?tament of Grunnius'', a Roman pig, publi?hed among Gruter’s ''Spuria , betrays not more evident marks of impo?ition.
References
* “spuria, n. pl.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989