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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

... sense and the emotion, then in reality music is not, for its spirit is dead. What shall be done with an agency so fierce and absorbing as this? Can it be tamed and fettered by the old conceptions of mental discipline and scholastic routine? Only by falsifying its nature and denying its essential appeal. Some colleges attempt so to evade the difficulty, and lend favor, so far at least as credit is concerned, only to the theoretical studies in which the training is ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... not have been signed by the ministers of Austria, Russia, and England, was issued by the legation of the Count of Lille at Vienna; which legation had added to the crime of provoking assassination that of falsifying the signature of the members ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

... doctrine of chances multiplied a hundred or a thousand fold, but also, which was worse, each separate orchestra was brought by local position under a separate and peculiar action of some temptation, some horrible temptation, some bribe that could not be withstood, for falsifying the copy by compliments to local families; that is, to such as were or such as were not descendants from the Paladius of Troy. For that, let me say, was for Greece, nay, for all the Mediterranean world, what for us of Christian ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... was she doing? What didst thou say to her? What did she answer? How did she look when she was reading my letter? Who copied it out for thee? and everything in the matter that seems to thee worth knowing, asking, and learning; neither adding nor falsifying to give me pleasure, nor yet curtailing lest you should ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... with the falsifying tone, he rose up from his chair as he spoke, approached the charming and naughty girl, and patted her on the shoulder. The rebuke, indeed, ended by being more agreeable to the sinner than praise might have been from a man less corroded ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett