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Forgery: "the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely; especially, the crime of fraudulently making, counterfeiting, or altering any writing, record, instrument, register, note and the like to deceive, mislead or defraud; as the forgery of a document or of a signature."
Fake (v.t.): "to make (something) seem real, satisfactory, etc., by any sort of deception; to practice deception by simulating or tampering with (something); counterfeit (Colloq.)."
Fake (n): "any copy or likeness."
Facsimile: "any copy or likeness."
Spurious: "illegitimate, bastard. . . . False; counterfeit; not genuine. . . . In botany: false, like in appearance but unlike in structure or function (spurious primary or quill: the outer primary quills when rudimentary or very short, as in certain singing birds). Syn.: counterfeit, fictitious, apocryphal, false, adulterate, bastard."
Pseudo: "fictitious, pretended, sham (as in pseudonym); counterfeit, spurious, as in pseudepigrapha; closely or deceptively similar to (a specified thing), as in pseudomorph; not corresponding to the reality, illusory. . . ."
Apocryphal: "various writings falsely attributed . . . of doubtful authorship or authenticity . . . spurious."
A short inspection in other linguistic territories does not offer any more satisfactory help. Moreover, the term "apocryphal" (etymologically: secret, occult) designated at the beginning of the Christian Era noncanonical books kept out of the New Testament, whereas Pseudo-epigrapha were writings falsely attributed to biblical characters. For Protestants, the Apocrypha are in general fourteen books of the Septuagint regarded as noncanonical. Since, however, Catholics accept in the Roman canon eleven of these fourteen books, calling them Deuterocanonical, and call apocrypha the remaining three, then for Protestants the Catholic deuterocanonical books are usually called apocrypha, and the Catholic apocrypha arc called pseudepigrapha. 1
It is evident that all these definitions can work only once one has duly interpreted such terms as "false," "deceiving," "misleading," "fictitious," "illusory,'' "noncorresponding to reality," "pretended," "fraudulent," "adulterated," as well as "genuine," "real," "satisfactory," "similar," and so on. Each of these terms is obviously crucial for

 
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