pseudonymous, a.
(ps-, sjuːˈdɒnɪməs)
[f. med. or mod.L. pseudōnym-us (a. Gr. ψευδώνυµ-ος: see pseudonym) + -ous. Cf. F. pseudonyme adj.]
1. Bearing or assuming, esp. writing under, a false or fictitious name; belonging to or characterizing one who does this.
| 1706 Phillips, Pseudonymous, that has a counterfeit Name. 1715 M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 8 The Pseudonymous Inconsiderableness of those Libelling Insults. 1796 Pegge Anonym. (1809) Advt., Whether the person be of known and established character, anonymous, or pseudonymous. 1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVII. 532 The pseudonymous refugees of political persecution. 1869 Pall Mall G. 14 July 10 A Parisian has just taken the trouble to write a book..to unmask all his pseudonymous contemporaries. |
2. Written under an assumed or fictitious name; bearing the name of another than the real author.
| 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v., The greater epistles of St. Ignatius, &c., are usually supposed to be pseudonymous. 1882 Halkett & Laing (title) A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. 1906 H. B. Swete Apocalypse Introd. xv. §1. 170 A Christian apocalypse, if pseudonymous, would naturally have been attributed to an Apostle. |
Hence pseuˈdonymously adv., in a pseudonymous manner, under a false or fictitious name.
| 1836 in Byron's Wks. (1846) 428/2 Pieces published anonymously or pseudonymously. a 1845 Barham Ingol. Leg., Jerry Jarvis's Wig, A stuff by drapers most pseudonymously termed ‘everlasting’. 1882–3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1276 [Languet's] Vindiciae contra tyrannos, published pseudonymously in 1579. |