Meanings
verbprævaricate (third-person singular simple present prævaricates, present participle prævaricating, simple past and past participle prævaricated)
present singular third person prævaricates · participle present prævaricating · participle past prævaricated · past prævaricated
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of prevaricate.
And how far Augustine and his successors did well, and where, without scripture, by humane devises they did fondlie prævaricate, and Greg. himself was not free.
1843, Abraham Wheelock, quoted in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men; page 158
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