Fal'si-fi-cā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. falsification, Sp. falsificacion, It. falsificazione.]

1. The act of making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not; as, the falsification of words. Hooker.
2. Confutation. Broome.
3. (Equity.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.