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aient which we falfely think convenient for us. Smalrijge. 
— Perfklioufly ; treacherouily ; deceitfully. 
FALSENESS, / Contrariety to truth. Want of ve¬ 
racity ; violation of promife.—Suppofe the revet fe of vir¬ 
tue were folemnly enabled, and the practice of fraud and 
rapine, and perjury and falfencfs to a man’s word, and all 
Vice were elkiblifhed by a law ; would that which we now 
call vice gain the reputation of virtue, and that which we 
now call virtue grow odious to human nature ? Tillotfon .— 
Duplicity; deceit; double dealing.—Piety isoppofed to 
hypocrify and infincerity, and all falfcnejs or foulnefs of 
intentions, efpecially to perfonated devotion. Hatnmond. 
—Treachery; perfidy; traiteroufnefs.—The prince is in 
no danger of being betrayed by the falfcnejs , or cheated by 
the avarice, of fuch a fervant. Rogers. 
FAL'SER, f A deceiver ; an hypocrite. Olfolete : 
Such end had the kid ; for he would weaned be 
Of craft coloured with fimplicity ; 
And fuch end, pardie, does all them remain, 
That of fuch falfcr's friendfflip been fain. Spcnfer. 
FAL'SI CRIMEN, in the civil law, is fraudulent 
fubornation or concealment, with defign to darken or hide 
the truth, and make things appear otherwile than they 
are. The crimen falfi is committed, i. By words, as when 
a vvitnefs fwears falfely. 2. By writing, as when a man 
antedates a contradl. 3. By deed, as when he fells by 
falfe weights and meafures. 
FALSIFI'ABLE, adj. Liable to be counterfeited or 
corrupted. 
FALSIFICATION,/. [ falff cation , Fr. from falffy .] 
TJie aft of counterfeiting any thing fo as to make it ap¬ 
pear what it is not.—To. counterfeit the dead image of a 
king in his coin is an high otfence ; but to counterfeit the 
living image of a king in his perfon, exceedeth all faff- 
cations-, except it fhould be that of a Mahomet, that coun¬ 
terfeits divine honour. B&con. —Confutation.—The- poet 
invents this fidtion to prevent pofterity from fearching 
after this ifle, and to preferve his dory from detection 
of falff cation. Broome. 
FAL'SI FI ER,/ One that counterfeits ; one that makes 
any thing to feem what it is not.—It happens in theories 
built on too obvious or too few experiments, what hap¬ 
pens t o falff ers of coin; for counterfeit money will en¬ 
dure fonie one proof, others another, but none of them 
all proofs. Boyle. —A liar; one that contrives falfehoods. 
—Boaders are naturally falff ers, and the people of all 
others that put their fltams the word together. VEf range. 
To I'AL'SIFY, v. a. \_falffier,Yx .] To counterfeit; 
to forge ; to produce fomething for that which in reality 
it is not.— Falffying the balance by deceit. Amos. —We 
cannot excufe that church, which through corrupt trunf- 
lations of feripture, delivered, indead of divine fpeeches, 
any thing repugnant unto that which God fpeaketh; or, 
through falff ed additions, propofeth that to the people of 
God as feripture, which is in truth no feriptnre. Hooker. 
—To confute ; to prove falfe.—Our Saviour’s prophecy 
Hands good in the deftrutSlion of the temple, and the dif- 
folution of the Jewilh economy; when Jews and Pagans 
united all their endeavours, under Julian the apodate, 
to baffle and faljify the prediction. Addifon. —To violate; 
to break by falfehood.—This fuperadds treachery to all 
the other pedilent ingredients of the crime ; ’tis the falf¬ 
fying the mod important trud. Decay of Piety. —To pierce; 
to run through : 
His cred is raffl’d away, his ample fflield 
Is falffy'd , and round with jav’lins fill’d. Dryden. 
Of this word Mr. Dryden writes thus : My friends 
quarrelled at the word faffed, as an innovation in our 
language. The faft is confeded ; for I remember not to 
have read it in any Englilh author; though perhaps it 
may be found in Spcnfer’ s Fairy Queen. But fuppofe it 
be not there: why am I forbidden to borrow from the 
Italian, a poliffled language, the word. which is wanting in 
my native tongue ? Horace has given us a rule for coining 
words, f graco fonte cadant , efpecially when other words 
are joined with them which explain the fenfe. 1 ufed 
the word falffy, in this place, to mean that the fflield of 
Turnus was not of proof againd the fpears and javelins of 
the Trojans, which had pierced it through and through 
in many places. The words which accompany this new 
one, makes my meaning plain : 
Ma f rUJbergo d’Ambi era perfetto, 
Che maipoter falfarlo in ncjfum canto. Ariodo, cant. xxvi. 
Falfar cannot otherwife be turned than by falff ed: for his 
fflield was fa fed, is not Engliffl. I might indeed have 
contented myfelf with faying his fflield was pierced, and 
bored, and duck with javelins. Dryden .—“ Dryden, with 
all this effort, (fays Dr. Johnfon,) was not able to natu¬ 
ralize the new fignification, which I have never feen co¬ 
pied, except once by fome obfeure namelefs writer, and 
which indeed delerves not to be received.” 
To FAL'SIKY, v. n. To tell lies; to violate truth.— 
This point have we gained, that it is abfolutely and uni- 
verfally unlawful to lie and falffy. South. 
FALSIFYING A RECORD, inlaw: a perfon that 
purchafes land of another, who is afterwards outlawed of 
felony, &c. may faldfy the record, not only as to the time 
wherein the felony is fuppofed to have been committed, 
but alfo as to the point of the offence : but where a man 
is found guilty by verdiA, a purchafor cannot falfify as to 
the offence ; though he may for the time, where the party 
is found guilty generally in the indiftment, See. becaufe 
the time is not material upon evidence. And any judgment 
given by perfons who had no good commiflion to proceed 
againd the perfon condemned, may be fallided by (hewing 
the fpecial matter, without writ of error. Alfo where a 
man is attainted of treafon or felony, if he be afterwards 
pardoned by parliament, the attainder may be falfided by 
him or his heir, without plea. 2 Hawk. P. C. 
FALSIFYING A RECOVERY. IfiTue in tail may 
falfify a recovery fuft’ered by tenants for life, &c. And it 
lias been held, that a perfon may faldfy a recovery had 
by the idiie in tail, where an edate-tail is before bound 
by a fine. 2 Nelf Air. 831. But where there is tenant for 
life, remainder in tail, and reverfion in fee, tenant for life 
Aiders a common recovery, in which he in remainder is 
vouched, and the ufes declared to him, who had the re¬ 
mainder in tail ; adjudged, that by the recovery all re¬ 
mainders and reverfions are barred, and that they could 
not falfify this recovery. 10 Rep. 43. It lias been deter¬ 
mined, that a recovery is not fo firm, but it may be fulfi¬ 
lled in point of recovery of the thing itfelf, between the 
fame parties. See Fine and Recovery. 
FALSING, part. adj. [from to falfe.’] Falfe.—Nay, 
not Aire in a thing faffing. Skakcfpeare. 
FALSITY,/. Ifalftas, Lat.J Falfehood; contrariety 
to truth.—Probability does not make any alterations, 
either in the truth or falfity of tilings; but only imports 
a different degree of their clearnefs or appearance to the 
underdanding. South. 
Can you on him fuch falfties obtrude ? 
And as a mortal the moll wife delude. Sandys. 
A lie ; an error; a falfe affertion or pofition.—That Da- 
nubius arifeth from the Pyrenean hills, that the earth is 
higher towards the north, are opinions truly charged on 
Aridotle by the redorer of Epicurus, and all eafily con¬ 
futable falfities. Glanville. 
FAL'SO RETURNO BREVIUM, in law, a writ that 
lieth againd the fflerifi’ who hath execution of procefs, 
for falfe returning of writs. 
FAL'STAFF. See Fastolff. 
FAL'STER, an illand of Denmark, fituated at the 
entrance of the Baltic, fouth of Zealand, from which it 
is feparated only by a narrow lea, about fixtv miles in cir¬ 
cumference; exceedingly fertile, and abounding in game: 
the principal towns are Nyekioping and Stubbekioping. 
Lat. 54.. 50. N. Ion. j2,E. Greenwich, 
FALSTERBO, 
