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/fˈɔlsəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Falsify v. t. (past & past part. falsified; pres. part. falsifying)

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.

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.

(Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.

(Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.

To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

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

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"Falsifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... University in expert tonsure is now well understood, but the craving for the subjugation of falsifying hair must have been quite secondary to that for the sustenance of the bodily powers, and accordingly the cooks stood very near to the purveyors of intellectual aliment. Nor did the Chancellor concern himself merely with ...

— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... tasks of the criminalist is to hit, in just such cases, upon the truth; neither to accept the testimony blindly and uncritically; nor to render the witness, who otherwise is telling the truth, vacillating and doubtful. But it is still more difficult to lead the witness, who is not intentionally falsifying, but has merely observed incorrectly or has made false conclusions, to a statement of the truth as Socrates leads the slave in the Meno. It is as modern as it is comfortable to assert that this is not the judge's business—that the witness is to depose, his evidence is to be accepted, ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... Van Riper admitted that it must have been a sudden temptation. But—he had yielded. In those six months fifty thousand dollars of Abram Van Riper's money had gone into the gulf that yawned in Wall Street; fifty thousand dollars, not acquired by falsifying the books, but filched outright from the private safe to which he had access; fifty thousand dollars, in securities which he had turned into money, acting as the confidential ...

— The Story of a New York House • Henry Cuyler Bunner

... bouquet from the woods; the other, specimens for his herbarium. The former would enlist your sympathies and arouse your enthusiasm; the latter would add to your store of exact knowledge. The one is just as shy of over-coloring or falsifying his facts as the other, only he gives more than facts,—he gives impressions and analogies, and, as far as possible, shows you the ...

— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... Palermo of falsifying documents by which rightful owners were deprived of their lawful possessions. They threw me into subterranean dungeons, and I was near dying, when the Invisible ...

— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach

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