Falsifying

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Falsified}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Falsifying}.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F.
     falsifier. See {False}, a.]
     1. To make false; to represent falsely.
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              The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything
              as they list, to please or displease any man.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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     3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to
        disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
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              By how much better than my word I am,
              By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak.
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              Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under
              Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the
              prediction.                           --Addison.
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     4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's
        faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney.
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     5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler.
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     6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
        --Blackstone.
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     7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge
        inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell.
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     8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with;
        as, to falsify a record or document.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  falsifying
       n : the act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsification},
            {disproof}, {refutation}]