falsify English
Verb
( en-verb)
To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
- to falsify a record or document
* Spenser
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
To misrepresent.
To prove to be false.
* Shakespeare
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
* Addison
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
To counterfeit; to forge.
- to falsify coin
(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- (Story)
- (Daniell)
(obsolete) To baffle or escape.
* Samuel Butler
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe
(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
- to falsify one's faith or word
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
Derived terms
* falsifiable
* falsifiability
* falsification
* falsificationism
* falsifier
Related terms
* false
* falsehood
* falseness
* falsity
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forge English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forge, early Old French faverge, from (etyl) (genitive fabri).
Noun
( wikipedia forge)
( en noun)
Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
The act of beating or working iron or steel.
* Francis Bacon
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) forger, from (etyl) forgier, from (etyl) .
Verb
(lb) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
To form or create with concerted effort.
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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Those names that the schools forged , and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
* (1809-1892)
*:do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
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To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
*1663 , , (Hudibras)
*:That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Etymology 3
Make way, move ahead'', most likely an alteration of ''force , but perhaps from , via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.
Verb
(often as forge ahead ) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
* De Quincey
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
(sometimes as forge ahead ) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
Derived terms
* forgery
See also
* fabricate
* make up
* blacksmith
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