falsary
English
Etymology
From Latin falsarius, from falsus. See false.
Noun
falsary (plural falsaries)
- (obsolete) A falsifier of evidence.
- 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter:
- by the Ministers of the Church is exhibited in the Person of the whole Church: for euen as he should be accounted a falsary
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for falsary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)