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falsify
English
Etymology
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsific?re, present active infinitive of falsific? (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false +? -ify.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ls?fa?/
Verb
falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)
- (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- (transitive) To misrepresent.
- (transitive) To prove to be false.
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences Of The Christian Religion
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences Of The Christian Religion
- (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
- (transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
- It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it
- 1912, Peyton Boyle, The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States
- 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.
- 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
- (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
- a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire
- 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 […]
- a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire
- (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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Further reading
- falsify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- falsify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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fallacious
English
Etymology
fallacy +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?.?le?.??s/
- Rhymes: -e???s
Adjective
fallacious (comparative more fallacious, superlative most fallacious)
- Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
- Deceptive or misleading.
Usage notes
- Nouns often used with "fallacious": argument, reasoning, etc.
Related terms
- fail
- failure
- fallacy
- fallibilism
- fallibilist
- fallibility
- fallible
- false
- falsifiable
- falsification
- falsificator
- falsifier
- falsify
- falsity
Translations
See also
- wrong
- incorrect
- illogical
- deceiving
- deceitful
- misleading
- delusive
- illusive
- illusory
- erroneous
- faulty
- specious
Further reading
- fallacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fallacious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fallacious at OneLook Dictionary Search
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