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† ˈfalsary Obs.
Forms: 5–7 falsarie, 6 falsery, Sc. falsar, 7– falsary.
[ad. late L. falsārius, f. falsus false.]
1. One who falsifies, or fraudulently alters (a document, etc.); a falsifier.
1435in Bp. Gray's Register, Lincoln 173 Falsaries of þe popes lettres. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 176 The Bishop of Rome..was..found an open Falsarie, for..the Canons of his making disagreed from the very Originals. 1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture iv. 29 A falsarie is hee that in writing addeth. or detracteth, or altereth any thing fraudulently. a1734North Exam. Pref. (1740) p. xiv, A Writer of his own Time cannot avoid being partial, that is, a wilful Falsary. 1828C. Wordsworth Charles I 213 Gauden..an habitual impostor and falsary.
b. One who forges a document; a forger.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 79 He that did forge this Epistle..was..an impudent falsarie. 1590Davidson Repl. Bancroft in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) I. 507 If this be not to play the falsarie forger..let the chaplain himself be judge. 1678Acts of Sederunt 31 July They will proceed against and punish these persons as falsaries and forgers of writes. 1697Bentley Ep. Socrates (1836) II. 189 The ground for our falsary to forge this Epistle.
2. A false or deceitful person.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 141 O that there were a wyndowe in to y⊇ breastes of such falsaryes. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 331 A falsary, and an intruder into his secrets. |