单词 | falsification |
释义 | falsificationn. 1. The action of rendering (something) false; fraudulent alteration (of documents, of weights or measures, etc.); misrepresentation, perversion (of facts); counterfeiting; an instance of the same. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [noun] falsification1565 belying1603 misrepresentation1641 misrepresenting1645 misrendering1661 misconstructing1678 misdescription1848 blotching1865 oversell1969 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] counterfeiturec1325 adulteration1502 sophistication1564 falsification1565 counterfeisance1590 forgery1594 fausonry1647 alchemisting1649 counterfacture1682 coinage1693 counterfeiting1697 faking1819 counterfeit1843 doctoring1963 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iv. 251 He..shoareth vp a ruinous mater with the falsification of his Doctours. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. v. 137 By falsification of the wordes, wittingly to endeuour that any thing may seeme diuine which is not. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 48 Some adulterate castoreum..but this is a falsification discernable. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 36 I am accused for lies and falsifications. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 351 If there were..ground of suspicion that the Figures were altered, its still the same; but..If the Falsification were so neat, that it could not so easily be discerned..then [etc.]. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 77 Affectation is the falsification of the whole Person. 1823 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons (ed. 4) I. iii. iii. 282 Their..manifest falsifications both of manners and history. 1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 176 By a wise falsification, the great masters of painting got at their true conclusions. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxvi. 655 The falsification of date. 2. a. The showing (something) to be groundless. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun] > by showing error convincement1612 convictiona1641 falsification1885 1885 Manch. Examiner 12 Dec. 5/2 The complete falsification of these confident assurances. b. Equity. ‘The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong’ (Webster 1864, citing Story). ΚΠ 1845 J. W. Smith Man. Equity 163 The proving an item to be wrongly inserted is a falsification. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565 |
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