From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Falsified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falsifying}.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See {False}, adjective]
1. To make false; to represent falsely.
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. --Spenser.
2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak.
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. --Addison.
4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney.
5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler.
6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. --Blackstone.
7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell.
8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsification}, {disproof}, {refutation}]
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