forged, ppl. a.
(fɔədʒd)
Also 4 i-forged.
[f. forge v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
† 1. a. Fashioned, framed. In quot. 1382 alle forgid trees = all kinds of wooden instruments. Obs.
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Sam. vi. 5 Dauid and al Yrael pleiden before the Lord, in alle forgid trees, and harpis. |
2. Fashioned at the forge. † Of money: Coined.
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 70 Full brighter was the shynyng of hir hewe, Than in the tour the noble yforged newe. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. v. 13 Nor shall thy wings, nor Jove in forged gold, Work thy escape. 1679 Essex Papers (Camden) I. 235 Soe that it may be..wrought as forged Iron is. a 1839 Praed Poems (1864) I. 259 Whose broken chain Than new forged bonds is far more dear. 1881 Daily News 11 Aug. 1/6 The ‘Standard’ Forged Horse Nails. |
† 3. Fabricated, ‘got up’, ‘made up’, invented.
| 14.. Lydg. Secrees 75 That double of tonge hatyd adulacyon, ffals Repoort..fforgyd talys with oute sekirnesse. 1583 Greene Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 183 His fained faith and forged flatterie. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 135 The Priests..by diuulging forged miracles, increased the number of her Votaries. a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655) 37 Upon a forged quarrell. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. i. 11 The learning attributed to Hermes Trismegist, is but of late years standing, and both the Author and it but forged and feigned. |
4. Made in fraudulent imitation of something genuine; counterfeit, false, spurious.
| 1484 Certificate in Surtees Misc. (1890) 42 A forget testimonyall. 1509 Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 7 Many..forged informacions. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 38 This monstrous forged deuise. 1592 Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxv. (1612) 168 Lambert the forged Yorkest. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ix. 75 What hope has thou, a forged Snake, to scape? 1628 Coke On Litt. lxxv. 172 This forged release. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 169 Many forged and counterfait writings. 1817 Parl. Debates 716 A forged Bank of England note. 1858 Greener Gunnery 246 Any such forged or counterfeit stamp. 1876 Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. xxvi. 404 Acquainted with the aspect of forged coins. |
Hence † ˈforgedly adv.
| 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 91 If thou wast minded both falsely, and forgedly to deceive me. 1675 tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. 355 That her Adversaries might easily..write many things forgedly and falsly. |