English-Thai Dictionary

prevaricate

VI เลี่ยง พูดความจริง  equivocate liang-phud-kwam-jing

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREVARICATE

v.i.[L. proevaricor; proe and varico, varicor, to straddle. ] 1. To shuffle; to quibble; to shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course or from truth; to play foul play.
I would think better of himself, than that he would wilfully prevaricate.
2. In the civil law, to collude; as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
3. In English law, to undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

 

PREVARICATE

v.t.To pervert; to corrupt; to evade by a quibble. [But in a transitive sense, this word is seldom or never used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PREVARICATE

Pre *var "i *cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prevaricated; p. pr. & vb. n.Prevaricating.] Etym: [L. praevaricatus, p. p. of praevaricari to walk crookedly, to collude; prae before + varicare to straddle, fr. varicus straddling, varus bent. See Varicose. ]

 

1. To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. He prevaricates with his own understanding. South.

 

2. (Civil Law )

 

Defn: To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

 

3. (Eng. Law )

 

Defn: To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

 

Syn. -- To evade; equivocate; quibble; shuffle. -- Prevaricate, Evade, Equivocate. One who evades a question ostensibly answers it, but really turns aside to some other point. He who equivocate uses words which have a double meaning, so that in one sense he can claim to have said the truth, though he does in fact deceive, and intends to do it. He who prevaricates talks all round the question, hoping to "dodge " it, and disclose nothing.

 

PREVARICATE

PREVARICATE Pre *var "i *cate, v. t.

 

Defn: To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. [Obs. ] Jer. Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prevaricate

pre var i cate |priˈvariˌkāt prəˈvɛrəˌkeɪt | ▶verb [ no obj. ] speak or act in an evasive way: he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions. DERIVATIVES pre var i ca tion |priˌvariˈkāSHən |noun, pre var i ca tor |-ˌkātər |noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘go astray, transgress ’): from Latin praevaricat- ‘walked crookedly, deviated, ’ from the verb praevaricari, from prae ‘before ’ + varicari ‘straddle ’ (from varus ‘bent, knock-kneed ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

prevaricate

prevaricate |prɪˈvarɪkeɪt | ▶verb [ no obj. ] speak or act in an evasive way: he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions. DERIVATIVES prevarication |-ˈkeɪʃ (ə )n |noun, prevaricator noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (earlier (Middle English ) as prevarication and prevaricator ), in the sense ‘go astray, transgress ’: from Latin praevaricat- ‘walked crookedly, deviated ’, from the verb praevaricari, from prae ‘before ’ + varicari ‘straddle ’.usage: The verbs prevaricate and procrastinate have similar but not identical meanings. Prevaricate means ‘act or speak in an evasive way ’, as in he prevaricated at the mention of money. Procrastinate, on the other hand, means ‘put off doing something ’, as in the Western powers will procrastinate until it is too late. The meanings are closely related —if someone prevaricates they often also procrastinate —and this can give rise to confusion in use.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

prevaricate

prevaricate verb you have prevaricated so often through this testimony that the truth has become unrecognizable: be evasive, beat around the bush, hedge, fence, shilly-shally, dodge (the issue ), sidestep (the issue ), equivocate, waffle; temporize, stall (for time ); hem and haw; rare tergiversate.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

prevaricate

prevaricate verb he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions about his involvement. See equivocate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prevaricate

pre var i cate /prɪvǽrɪkèɪt /動詞 自動詞 ｟かたく ｠はぐらかす, ごまかす ; «…について » うそをつく «on , over » .