falsifier

[Eng. falsify; -er.] 1. One who falsifies, counterfeits, or gives to any thing the appearance of something which it is not. "He is a common falsifter of the doctors." -Jewell: Reply to M. Hardinge , p. 407. 2. One who utters or contrives falsehoods; a liar. 3. One who proves anything to be false; a confuter. fals-l-fỹ, v . t. & i. [Fr. falsifier ; Sp. falsificar : Ital. falsificare , from Lat. falsifico , from falsus = false, and facio =to make.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To make false; to counterfeit; to forge. "The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list." -Spenser: Present Stale of Ireland. 2. To give the appearance to anything which it is not, to give a false or spurious appearance to. "We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people." -Burke : Conciliation with America. 3. To confute; to disprove; to prove to be false or unsound. "That long succe ion of confident predictions so sig nally falsified by a long succe ion of indisputable facts." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch., xix. *4. To violate; to break with falsene or unfaith fulne . IMG:content-1404.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1405.png:[blocks in formation] fama To falsify a record: Law : To injure or deface a record of a court of justice, as by obliterating or destroying it; or by certifying a copy of a document to be a true one. when it is known to be false in some material part. fals-l-fy, s. [FALSIFY, V.] Fencing: An effective thrust. fâls-Işm, s . [Eng. fals (e); -ism.] A clear or self-evident falsity; a statement the falsity of which is evident; opposed to truism (q. v.). fâls-i-ty, *fals-1-te, *fals-te, s . [O. Fr.falsité , from Lat. falsitas , from falsus ; Fr. fau eté ; Ital. falsità ; Sp.false dad ; Port. falsidade .] 1. The quality of being false or contrary to the truth or the facts; untruth, falsene . 2. That which is false or untrue; an untruth; a lie; a falsehood; a false a ertion; treachery, perfidy, dishonesty. For the difference between falsity and untruth , see UNTRUTH. *falt, s. [FAULT.] *fâl-těn, s. [Gael.faltan.] A fillet, a band for the head. fâl-ter (1), *fal-tren, *fal-tryn, *faul-ter, fol-tre, v . i . & t . [From an O. Fr. fulter ; Sp. & Port . faltar =to be deficient; Sp. faltare .] A. Intransitive : *1. To stumble, to mi one's footing. *2. To give way, to totter, to tremble; to be weak or unsteady. 3. To hesitate in the utterance of words; to stammer, to stutter; to speak with a broken or trembling utterance; to fail in utterance. "When holy strains from life's pure fount which sprung, Breathed with deep reverence, falter on his tongue." Hemans: Dartmoor. 4. To fail in any act of the understanding. "An exact observation of their several ways of falter ing."-Locke. B. Trans.: To utter with hesitation or stammer ing. "Here Probus came, the rising fray to quell, And here he faltered forth his last farewell." Byron: Childish Recollections. For the difference between to falter and to hes i tate , see HESITATE.