Falsify
Falsify , transitive verb
[Latin falsus false + -ly: compare French falsifier. See False, a.]
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. — Sir P. Sidney
5.
To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. — Butler
6.
(Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. — Blackstone
7.
(Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. — Story. Daniell
8.
To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
Falsify , intransitive verb
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.
South.