Fal"si*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.]
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.
Shak.
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie 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 baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
Bulter.
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.
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Fal"si*fy, v. i.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.
South.
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