From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la], corresponding to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. To alter so as to make false ; especially when done with intent to deceive .
2. * [passage=The Irish bards use to forge and FALSIFY everything as they list, to please or displease any man.]
3. To misrepresent .
4. To counterfeit ; to forge .
5. [en] To prove to be false .
6. * [act=I]
7. * [section=VIII]
8. [en] To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1833 | author=w:Joseph Story | title=Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
|passage=It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to
surcharge and FALSIFY it}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1912 | author=Peyton Boyle | title=The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States
|passage=The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and FALSIFY
accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the
parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.}}
1. [en] To baffle or escape .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=a. 1680 | author=w:Samuel Butler | title=Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. [en] To violate ; to break by falsehood .
2. * [passage=he would not FALSIFY his promise to Philanax]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |falsifiability |falsifiable |falsification |falsificationism
|falsifier }}
**** Related terms
{{col|en |false |falsehood |falseness |falsity }}
**** Translations
[to alter so as to be false]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to misrepresent]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to prove to be false]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to counterfeit, forge]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[finance: to show to be wrong]
- Finnish: [fi] [to bring into daylight]
[trans-bottom]
[_(obsolete in English)_ to baffle or escape]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[_(obsolete in English)_ to break by falsehood]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
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- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]