Definition of false

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False (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar..

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Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Convict :: Convict (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Falser :: Falser (n.) A deceiver.
Story-teller :: Storybook (n.) A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried..
Mislight :: Mislight (v. t.) To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
Creticism :: Creticism (n.) Falsehood; lying; cretism.
Position :: Position (n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position..
Pseudologist :: Pseudologist (n.) One who utters falsehoods; a liar.
Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..
Pseudaesthesia :: Pseudaesthesia (n.) False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot..
Confute :: Confute (v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
Doublehearted :: Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
Fable :: Fable (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Resumption :: Resumption (n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.
Pretension :: Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship..
Misconsequence :: Misconsequence (n.) A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
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