FALSIFY

v.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.
v.

To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

3.
v.

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. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

4.
v.

To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.

5.
v.

To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.

6.
v.

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

7.
v.

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

8.
v.

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

9.
v.

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

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