• COUNTERFEIT

1.

• Make a (fraudulent) imitation of, imitari (general term): imitando exprimere or effingere. (The words are found in this connection and order), effingere et exprimere: imitari et exprimere; also effingere or exprimere only: assimulare (to make anything like another; then with accessory notion of deception; e.g., the human voice, sermonem humanum): to counterfeit anybody’s handwriting, alicujus chirogrftphum imitari or assimulare: to counterfeit money, numos adulterinos percutere (after Suet., Ner., 25); monetam adulterinam exercere (Ulp., Dig., 48, 13, 6, § 1): to counterfeit a will, testamentum subjicere, supponere, subdere. [Vid: FORGE.]
• To put on the appearance of, simulare or assimulare (e.g., simulare studium alicujus rei, zeal in a cause; mortem, metum, diffidentiam alicujus rei; sedulitatem; assimulare anum; se laetum): to counterfeit sickness, simulare aegrum; assimulare se aegrum; simulare valetudinem: to counterfeit learning, simulare se doctum esse; simulare doctrinam: to counterfeit cheerfulness, assimulare se laetum; or hilaritatem fingere: to counterfeit piety, *se pium erga deum simulare: ihe appearance of youth, mentiri juvenem (Martisalis): insanity, simulare se furere (Cic.).

2. s. circumlocution with the adjectives under COUNTERFEIT: e.g., to prove anything to be a counterfait, aliquid adulterinum (ficticium, etc.) esse probare (after Quint., 2, 17, 17).