Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ?
Jer. vii. 9.
False"ness, n. The state of being false; contrariety to the fact;
inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing;
unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a
drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.
Fals"er (?), n. A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.
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.
||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.
Fal"si*fi`a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. falsifiable.] Capable of being
falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.
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.