1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 55 Alle trwe sentence..thou turnest into falsenes..ffor thou and other pseudo han marrid hem in the way.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 343 (MED) Forwhat so greet myscheef schulde bi likelihode haue come bi habundaunce of ricches in tho pseudo as came bi her pouerte in hem?

c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 308 (MED) Herfore seyþ iude aftir, hou men shal knowe siche pseudoes: ‘þise ben gruccheris, ful of pleynt, wandringe oftir heere desyris, and here mouþ spekiþ pride.’

a1500 (c1380) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 479 Many pseudois may speke myche wiþ-oute ground.

1829 Times 20 Jan. 3 This opposition consists of pseudo-liberals and pseudo-zealots in religion; and the junction thus formed between the Liberals..and the Catholic party, will last somewhat longer than is commonly expected, as all pseudos have to journey part of their way together.

1947 in J. Jones Reach 107 He is..a real gentleman, not a pseudo.

1959 K. Tynan in J. Feiffer Sick Sick Sick (ed. 2) Introd. The real Bohemians of Greenwich Village as well as the pseudoes.

1967 Observer 28 May (Colour Suppl.) 14/2 The undiscriminating, arty chat of a campus pseudo.

1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 77/1 When the pseudos meet the greedies and the philistines are in power, cultural desolation is the result.

1945 Archit. Rev. 97 110/1 The flamboyant, the vulgar, the monumental and the ‘pseudo’ have had their day.

1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn II. 221 ‘Your reverent worship has acquaintance with my kinswoman,’ said the pseudo youth.

1917 Genetics 2 525 That some of his families arising from selfed seed behaved exactly as the families arising from crossed seed shows that he is often (at least) dealing with a pseudo self-fertility.

1929 E. D. Sullivan Look at Chicago 92 Having provided a pseudo whiff and taste.

1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester 131 When they got back, the cottage seemed very small and horribly ‘arty-crafty’. ‘Everything looks so pseudo,’ said Lucy, with a sigh.

1959 K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discov. ii. 51 Nothing is easier than to unmask a problem as ‘meaningless’ or ‘pseudo’.

1964 J. Symons End of Solomon Grundy iii. ii. 150 That's the trouble with the country to-day, too many pseudo people in it.

1977 Time 18 Apr. 1/1 Intellectuals all over the world, real or pseudo, proudly proclaim that ‘democracy’ won.

1991 R. Keene Battle of Titans: Kasparov–Karpov (BNC) 110 A pseudo pawn sacrifice seeking to deflect White's attention from the black king, but Kasparov is not to be deterred.

1994 Amer. Spectator Dec. 52/1 We are talking about real journalists and not the pseudo kind, like the gasbags on television or the harpies hovering around the trial of O.J. Simpson.