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(), 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 baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Butler. 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 o Fal"sify v. i.To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South. スポンサード リンク
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