ppl. a. 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, and syngynge instrumentis, and tymbris.
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 Ioue inforged gold, | |
| Worke thy escape. About to throwe: O hold! |
1679. Essex Papers (Camden), I. 235. Soe that it may be filed & wrought as forged Iron is.
a. 1839. Praed, Poems (1864), I. 259, ‘An Excuse.’
| The dream of her, whose broken chain | |
| Than new forged bonds is far more dear; | |
| Whose name he may not speak again, | |
| And shudders but to hear. |
1881. Daily News, 11 Aug., 1/6. The ‘Standard’ Forged Horse Nails.
† 3. Fabricated, ‘got up,’ ‘made up,’ invented.
14[?]. Lydg., Secrees, 75.
| Nat double of tounge hatyd adulacyoun, | |
| ffals Repoort detraccyoun, ydelnesse, | |
| fforgyd talys with oute sekirnesse. |
1583. Greene, Mamillia, Wks. (Grosart), II. 183. His fained faith & forged flatterie.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 135. The Priests that had the charge of the sepulchre, who by divulging forged miracles, increased the number of her Votaries.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., II. (1655), 37. When he had returned home, inviting him of new to a Parliament kept at York, upon a forged quarrel, as if he had crossed King Henry his affairs in France, he was declared to have lost all his lands in England.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., i. 11. Chymistry (about which name we do not contend, but about the Art it self) is but of late invention; and that 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, that a Persone is nothyng ells but a visible forme of the glory of God, needeth no long confutation.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VII. xxxv. (1612), 168.
| Lambert the forged Yorkest, and the Priest (that fram’d his winges) | |
| Weare taken. |
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IX. 75.
| What hope hast thou, a forged Snake, to scape? | |
| That fight’st with others armes; and begst thy shape. |
1628. Coke, On Litt., lxxv. 172. For this forged release Grevil was sentenced in the star-chamber upon this statute.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., iii. § 24 (1642), 169. Hereticks I grant, even then, did obtrude upon the world many forged and counterfait writings, and that under the sacred names of the Apostles.
1817. Parl. Debates, 716. A forged Bank of England note.
1858. Greener, Gunnery, 246. Every person who sells or parts with the possession of any such forged or counterfeit stamp.
1876. Humphreys, Coin Coll. Man., xxvi. 404. In forming a collection of ancient coins the amateur must make himself acquainted with the aspect of forged coins.
Hence † Forgedly adv.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 91. If thou wast minded both falsely and forgedly to deceiue me, why didst thou flatter and dissemble with me at the first?
1675. trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., III. 355. That her Adversaries might easily get the Cyphers which she had made use of to others, and with the same write many things forgedly and falsly.
