falsifieth

Verb

falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)

1. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
   • to falsify a record or document
2. (transitive) To misrepresent.
3. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
   • to falsify money
4. (transitive, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false.
   • By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
5. (transitive) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
   • It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
6. (obsolete, transitive) To baffle or escape.
   • For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire

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