Adjective

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Fake (as documents).

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Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.

Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal

The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit.

(obsolete) Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.

*1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 244:

*:His good sense had pointed out to him the artifices of the monks, and the gross absurdity of their miracles, wonders, and supposititious reliques.

Supposed or hypothetical.

* 1953 , publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 90, ¶¶ 7–8

“Why this particular problem, Speaker? It obviously has significance other than purely academic.”
“Thank you, my boy. You are as quick as I had expected. The problem is not supposititious .”