Definition of False name

1. Noun. A name that has been assumed temporarily.

Exact synonyms: Alias, Assumed Name
Generic synonyms: Name

Lexicographical Neighbors of False Name

false labour
false lily of the valley
false lupine
false macula
false mallow
false membrane
false memory syndrome
false mildew
false mistletoe
false miterwort
false mitrewort
false modesty
false mole
false morel
false name (current term)
false negative
false negatives
false nettle
false neuroma
false northing
false nucleolus
false oat
false pain
false paracusis
false pelvis
false pimpernel
false positive
false positives
false pregnancy

Literary usage of False name

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Unfair Competition and Trademarks: With Chapters on Good-will by Harry Dwight Nims (1917)
"It is always unwise, but not always unlawful to use a false name for a corporation. So long as no one is injured by the false name and no one objects who ..."

2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Yet ex-Captain Warner was arrested yesterday, charged with ill treating Federal prisoners, with registering a false name, and as a dangerous character. ..."

3. The Law of Unfair Business Competition: Including Chapters on Trade Secrets by Harry Dwight Nims (1909)
"It is always unwise, but not always unlawful to use a false name for a corporation. So long as no one is injured by the false name and no one objects who ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"3. under the false name of Sq. liche) is remarkable for the small scales, in the form of leaves, raised and crowded, which furnish its entire skin. ..."

5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... "I entered a false name on the register. They took me for a lawyer. Did not disabuse their minds of that. I thought that was honorable enough. ..."

6. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1824)
"The Judges were unanimously of opinion that this was a forgery within the statute on which the dit be gained by using the false name. t Ballants case, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"But the adoption of a false description and addition, where a false name is not assumed, is not forgery. Thus, where the prisoner drew a bill, and directed ..."

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