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<h1>Falsicrimen</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*cri"men</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Civ. Law)</fld> <def>The crime of falsifying.</def>

<note>&hand; 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.</note>

<i>Burrill. Greenleaf.</i>

<h1>Falsifiable</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*fi`a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>falsifiable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Falsification</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal`si*fi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>falsification</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.</def>

<blockquote>To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all <b>falsifications</b>. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.</def>

<blockquote>Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent <b>falsification</b> of the doctrine of the alliance. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Equity)</fld> <def>The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.</def>

<i>Story.</i>

<h1>Falsificator</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*fi*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>falsificateur</ets>.]</ety> <def>A falsifier.</def>

<i>Bp. Morton.</i>

<h1>Falsifier</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*fi`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.</def>

<h1>Falsify</h1> <Xpage=540>

<hw>Fal"si*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Falsified</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Falsifying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>falsus</ets> false + <ets>-ly</ets>: cf. F. <ets>falsifier</ets>. See <er>False</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make false; to represent falsely.</def>

<blockquote>The Irish bards use to forge and <b>falsify</b> everything as they list, to please or displease any man. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To counterfeit; to forge; <as>as, to <ex>falsify</ex> coin</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.</def>

<blockquote>By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I <b>falsify</b> men's hope. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and <b>falsify</b> the prediction. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To violate; to break by falsehood; <as>as, to <ex>falsify</ex> one's faith or word</as>.</def>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>