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Definition of Tergiversates
1. tergiversate [v] - See also: tergiversate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tergiversates
Literary usage of Tergiversates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1900)
"... tavern harangues that more than twenty members of the Convention favored Kingly
government," and that Mercer maligns Daniel Carroll and " tergiversates. ..."
2. Pamphlets (1860)
"... denies, tergiversates—won't answer. He is drawn back to it again and again,
and finally he answers : "Well, it is the title. I saw them. ..."
3. History of the Norman Kings of England: From a New Collation of the by Thomas Cobbe (1869)
"307 At a convention at Winchester the legate tergiversates : the clergy 'to -whose
rights it pertains' elect Matilda . . . 307 The Londoners claim that the ..."
4. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor, Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1875)
"If the defendant on being summoned to appear before the magistrate tergiversates
or attempts to flee, the plaintiff may proceed to Manus injectio. ..."
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