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.
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.
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. Shak.
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.
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.