Как можно было распространять заведомо ложную информацию в xviii веке?

Abstract

The paper considers a semantic class of verbs with the meaning ‘to spread false information about someone’ that functioned in Eastern Siberia and Transbaikalia in the 18th century. The research material is the definitions of lexemes published in the dictionary of the “Russian language of the 18th century: Eastern Siberia. Zabaikalie” A. P. Maiorov/