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& s. [Pref. counter, and *A. As adj.: Running or flowing in an opposite current.] direction. 1150 ". coin of silver,."-Strype: Memorials; Edw . VI ., an. 1548. *B. In trans.: To deceive, to carry on a deception, to act a part, to feign. DRAW.] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Made in imitation of something else, with intent to be pa ed off as original and genuine; forged, spurious, fictitious, not genuine. "And tooke out the woolfe in his counterfeit cote, And let out the sheepes blood at his throte." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; Sept. *2. Resembling, presenting the appearance or likene of. "The counterfeit presentment of two brothers." Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 4. 3. A uming an appearance or semblance of something not genuine; false, deceitful, hypocritical. (1) Of persons:."-Shakesp.: an arrant counterfeit rascal Henry V., iii. 6. IMG:content-1125.png:[blocks in formation] And grudg'd to see the counter fet should shame The thing it selfe IMG:content-1126.png:[blocks in formation] countering the life of a man v. 4. . C. As substantive: IMG:content-1127.png:[blocks in formation] " head extension). a counter extending band attached to the bed- ."-Knight: Dict. Mechanics (s. v. counter- IMG:content-1128.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The a umption of a false character or appearance; deceit, hypocrisy. "Lying and counterfeiting my soul abhorreth..." State Trials , Earls of E ex & Southampton , an. 1600. 3. A spurious imitation. "Neither is Thomas Cardinal's life any thyng save a counterfaytyng of Saint Thomas of Canterbury."- Tyndall : Works , p. 361.