FALSIFY Copy link • FALSIFYcorrumpere (to corrupt by an internal change of quality): vitiare (to make faulty; pecunias, merces): adulterare (to falsify by the admixture of what is not genuine; e.g., numos, merces): interpolare (to give anything a good appearance by dressing it up, as it were, by spurious additions; merces): transcribere (to falsify in copying). To falsify documents, tabulas corrumpere, vitiare (general terms); tabulas interpolare (by erasing letters, and introducing others neatly, so as to be likely to avoid detection); tabulas interlinere (to erase [PROP. in wax] words from between other words; or to erase words so completely as to conceal, if possible, the fact of any having originally stood there); (The words are found in this connection and order.) tabulas corrumpere atque interlinere; tabulas transcribere (to falsify it in transcription; write it wrong): to falsify a will; Vid: “to FORGE a will.” To falsify one’s word, etc., fidem fallere, mutare, frustrari, non servare: fidem frangere, violare.