Forgery /(?)/

For·ger·y

Forgery

n.

pl. Forgeries

  1. The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.]
    Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.
  2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
  3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
    These are the forgeries of jealously.
    The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century.
    — Waterland.