Chapter Fallacious to Falsification of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Falser
(Fals"er) n. A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.

Falsetto
(Fal*set"to) n.; pl. Falsettos [It. falsetto, dim. fr. L. falsus. See False.] A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

Falsicrimen
(||Fal"si*cri"men) [L.] (Civ. Law) The crime of falsifying.

This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf.

Falsifiable
(Fal"si*fi`a*ble) a. [Cf. OF. falsifiable.] Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

Falsification
(Fal`si*fi*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. falsification.]

1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications.

Bacon.

2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.

Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance.

Bp. Warburton.

3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.