Obs. [f. FORGER1 or FORGERY: see -ER1 3.] One who commits forgery, a forger.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 628. Forgerers and periured persons ride with papers on their heads, vpon bare horse backs, and so forth.
1696. Prideaux, Lett. (Camden), 183. Through ye obstinacy of one man, the forgerer was acquitted, though his guilt manifestly appeared to every stander-by at ye tryall.
1826. Bentham, in Westm. Rev., VI. 462. A forgerer is comparatively at his ease.
So † Forgering ppl. a., practising forgery.
1618. Barnevelt’s Apol., G iv. If these forgering fellows would manifest and discover themselues.
