Falsify /(?)/
Fal·si·fy
Falsify
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying
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To make false; to represent falsely.
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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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.
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
- To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
- To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. (Law)
- To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. (Equity)
- To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
Falsify
v. i.
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To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.