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.
1435. in Bp. Gray’s Register, Lincoln, 173. Falsaries of þe popes lettres.
1565. Jewel, Repl. Harding (1611), 176. The Bishop of Rome, when he saw he was taken with the manner, and found an open Falsarie, for that the Canons of his making disagreed from the very Originals.
1612. T. James, Corrupt. Script., IV. 29. A falsarie is hee that in writing addeth, or detracteth, or altereth any thing fraudulently.
a. 1734. North, Exam., Pref. (1740), p. xiv. A Writer of his own Time cannot avoid being partial, that is, a wilful Falsary.
1828. C. Wordsworth, Charles I., Author of Icôn Basilikè, 213. Gauden himself, an habitual impostor and falsary; and about his evidences, possessing nothing but what they had from himself.
b. One who forges a document; a forger.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 79. He that did forge this Epistle vnder Saint Clements name, was not onely a doltish foole, but also an impudent falsarie, to make that auncient Clemens to write to the Apostle Saint Iames of such bables as those be.
1590. Davidson, Repl. Bancroft, in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844), I. 507. If this be not to play the falsarie forger, and that in the hiest degree, let the Chaplain himself be judge.
1678. Acts of Sederunt, 31 July. They will proceed against and punish these persons as falsaries and forgers of writes.
1697. Bentley, Ep. Socrates (1836), II. 189. The ground for our falsary to forge this Epistle.
2. A false or deceitful person.
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 141.
| O that there were a wyndowe in to ye breastes of such falsaryes, | |
| The woorld should not be pesterid with such millions of miseryes. |
1652. Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία, the Mag-astro-mancer, 331. A falsary, and an intruder into his secrets.
