Falsify /(?)/

Fal·si·fy

Falsify

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying

  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.
  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.
    Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
  4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
  5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
  6. To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. (Law)
  7. To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. (Equity)
  8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

Falsify

v. i.
  1. To tell lies; to violate the truth.
    It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.