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verb

Forge v. t. (past & past part. forged; pres. part. forging)

1.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. "Mars's armor forged for proof eterne."

2.

To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. "Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use." "Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves."

3.

To coin. (Obs.)

4.

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. "That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you." "Forged certificates of his... moral character."

Synonyms: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.

Forge v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Forge v. i.

1.

To commit forgery.

2.

(Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. "And off she (a ship) forged without a shock."

adjective

forged adj.

1.

Not genuine; counterfeit; used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge, v. t., 4.

Synonyms: bad.

2.

Shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; of metal objects. Note: Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort.

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"Forged" Quotes from Famous Books

... 1807, wished to use the name of Kosciusko in order to rally the people of the country round his standard. The patriot, aware that no real freedom was to be hoped for under such auspices, at once refused to lend himself to his wishes. Upon this the emperor forged Kosciusko's signature to an address to the Poles, which was distributed throughout the country. Nor would he permit the injured person to deny the authenticity of this act in any public manner. The real state of the case was, however, made known to many through the private representations ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

... solicitous formerly of her masters. Nowadays sentiment has changed and there is a gratifying outcry whenever a stranger secures a genuine old master. As for the copies, they, like the poor, are always with us. America is flooded every year with forged pictures, especially of the minor Dutch masters, and excellent are these ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... sent word East, and that company sent one of their best men, Simon Fraser, to ascend the Saskatchewan and beat the Americans in on the Columbia. But he himself was beaten in that great race by about a couple of years! So we forged the chain that was to hold the Oregon country to the United States afterward. Oh yes, our young captains had a big game to play, and they played ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

... residence in the pure, bracing air of Sark. Yet what was I to think in face of those undated documents, and of her own short letter to her husband? The one I knew was genuine; why should I suppose the others to be forged? And if forgeries, who had been guilty of such a cruel and crafty artifice, ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... for the present; but soon after, having received undeniable proofs (as is alleged) of the treason imputed to Perennius, in the shape of a coin which had been struck by his son, he caused the father to be assassinated; and, on the same day, by means of forged letters, before this news could reach the son, who commanded the Illyrian armies, he lured him also to destruction, under the belief that he was obeying the summons of his father to a private interview on the Italian frontier. ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

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