HOW COULD FALSE INFORMATION BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE 18<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY?
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 18<sup>th</sup> century. The research material is the definitions of lexemes published in the dictionary of the "Russian language of the 18<sup>th</sup> century: Eastern Siberia. Zabaikalie" A. P. Maiorov.