Obs. Also 6–7 falsary. [a. OF. falserie, f. fals FALSE a.] Deception, falsification, falsehood.
1594. 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1858), III. 397. The good emperor sorely ashamed came now to make him amends for his pretty falsery.
1639. Gentilis, Servita’s Inquis. (1676), 889. The Inquisitors would not have the accused who have been calumniated, by any means have power to have reccourse to any other Tribunal, and so they write in their Books, alledging for reason, that the injury is done to that Tribunal, to which that falsary hath not born respect.
a. 1670. M. Casaubon, A Treatise Proving Spirits, etc. (1672), 214. This, Gassendus thinks is enough … to prove Plutarch a falsary.
