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Webster 1913 Edition

Falsify

Fal′si-fy

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Falsified
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Falsifying
.]
[L.
falsus
false +
-ly
: cf. F.
falsifier
. See
False
,
Adj.
]
1.
To make false; to represent falsely.
The Irish bards use to forge and
falsify
everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
Spenser.
2.
To counterfeit; to forge;
as, to
falsify
coin
.
3.
To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I
falsify
men’s hope.
Shakespeare
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and
falsify
the prediction.
Addison.
4.
To violate; to break by falsehood;
as, to
falsify
one's faith or word
.
Sir P. Sidney.
5.
To baffle or escape;
as, to
falsify
a blow
.
Butler.
6.
(Law)
To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
Blackstone.
7.
(Equity)
To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
Story. Daniell.
8.
To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with;
as, to
falsify
a record or document
.

Fal′si-fy

,
Verb.
I.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and
falsify
.
South.

Webster 1828 Edition

Falsify

FALS'IFY

, v.t.
1.
To counterfeit; to forge; to make something false, or in imitation of that which is true; as, to falsify coin.
The Irish bards use to falsify every thing.
2.
To disprove; to prove to be false; as, to falsify a record.
3.
To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
4.
To show to be unsound, insufficient or not proof. [Not in use.]
His ample shield is falsified.

FALS'IFY

,
Verb.
I.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is universally unlawful to lie and falsify.

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