Indemnify vs False - What's the difference?
indemnify | false |
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
* 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple ,
(senseid)(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
* 1906 , Civil Code of the State of California [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ], page 405:
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
*1583 , Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries , i. 63a
*:He... did not belieue]] that his [[Majesty, Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified .
*1593 , Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard , E ij
*:What harme the Rhodians haue]] [[done, doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
:
*
*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
:
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
:
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
:
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb indemnify
is to secure against loss or damage; to insure or indemnify can be (obsolete|rare) to hurt, to harm.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.indemnify
English
Etymology 1
From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.Verb
(en-verb)page 101:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
Derived terms
* indemnifiable * indemnification * indemnifierEtymology 2
From , assimilated to (indemn) andVerb
References
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}