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"Section F, G and H"


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.


Fal"si*fy, v.


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