‖ [ L. ] (Civ. Law) The crime of falsifying. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. falsifiable. ] 1. Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. able to be proven false, and therefore testable; as, most religious beliefs are not falsifiable, and are therefor outside the scope of experimental science. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. falsification. ] 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. [ 1913 Webster ]

To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. falsificateur. ] A falsifier. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. [ 1913 Webster ]

By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. [ 1913 Webster ]

South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.;pl. Falsities [ L. falsitas: cf. F. fausseté, OF. also, falsité. See False, a. ] 1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

Syn. -- Falsehood; lie; deceit. -- Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him. [ 1913 Webster ]