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Prevaricate
v. i.
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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.
Prevaricate
v. i.
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To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
Prevaricate
v. i.
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To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricate
v. t.
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To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
Prevarication
n.
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The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
Prevarication
n.
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A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
Prevarication
n.
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The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
Prevarication
n.
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A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricator
n.
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One who prevaricates.
Prevaricator
n.
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A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
Prevaricator
n.
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One who betrays or abuses a trust.
Preve
v. i. & i.
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To prove.
Preve
n.
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Proof.
Prevenance
n.
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A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.
Prevenancy
n.
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The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.
Prevene
v. t. & i.
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To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent.
Prevenience
n.
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The act of going before; anticipation.
Prevenient
a.
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Going before; preceding; hence, preventive.
Prevented
imp. & p. p.
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of Prevent
Preventing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Prevent
Prevent
v. t.
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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
Prevent
v. t.
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To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
Prevent
v. t.
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To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
Prevent
v. i.
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To come before the usual time.
Preventability
n.
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The quality or state of being preventable.
Preventable
a.
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Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
Preventative
n.
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That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
Preventer
n.
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One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.
Preventer
n.
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One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.
Preventer
n.
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An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.