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Falsify   /fˈɔlsəfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Falsify  v. t.  (past & past part. falsified; pres. part. falsifying)  
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."
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." "Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction."
4.
To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
5.
To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
6.
(Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
7.
(Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
8.
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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Falsify" Quotes from Famous Books



... falsify the account," cried Carlyle hotly. He sat down however, and added more quietly: "But why do I tell you all this? I have never spoken ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... syphilis, cured or not, or has been exposed to it, should make it an absolute rule to inform his physician of the fact. The recognition of many obscure conditions in medicine depends on this knowledge. For a patient to falsify the facts or to ignore or conceal them is simply to work against his own interests and to hinder his physician in his efforts ...
— The Third Great Plague - A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People • John H. Stokes
... dissuaded him from so extreme a course, "is quite able to conclude without our assistance the negotiation into which she has entered. God grant that we at least may be spared all participation in the slight offered to the memory of the late King, by refusing to falsify the pledge which he gave to the Duke of Savoy, whose house has so long been the firm ally ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... problems or with good conscience fail to use his art to help toward their solution. His observations of moral experience will inevitably result in beliefs about it, and these will reveal themselves in his work. Yet we should demand that his view of what life ought to be shall not falsify his representation of life as it is. Just as soon as the moral of a tale obtrudes, we begin to suspect that the tale is false. We have such suspicions about Bourget, for example, because, as in Une ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... this consideration, that if I should not venture all for God, I engaged God to take care of my concernments: but if I forsook Him and His ways, for fear of any trouble that should come to me or mine, then I should not only falsify my profession, but should count also that my concernments were not so sure, if left at God's feet, whilst I stood to and for His name, as they would be if they were under my own care, though with the denial of the way of God. This was a smarting consideration, and as spurs ...
— Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners • John Bunyan


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