Citations:æquivocate

Verb: antiquated spelling of

 * 1673, Richard Leigh, A Description of the Academy of the Athehian Virtuosi; page #28:
 * Thus like the Divel you æquivocate in your oracles, but as laſt like him you are found a lyar.
 * 1810, Earl of Stirling, in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; Volume V of XXI, page #352:
 * Who hath not heard by fame strange tales oft told,
 * Of him to whom at Delphos troups did throng,
 * Who finely could æquivocate of old,
 * Abhomination of all nations long,
 * Whom to accuse the Lydian king was bold
 * As false, ingrate, and having done him wrong :
 * Though he them all deceiv’d who him ador’d,
 * Yet was his temple with rich treasures stor’d.
 * 1852, Thomas Browne, in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Henry G. Bohn; Volume II, book six, Chapter I, page #114:
 * I say therefore that thoughe in respect of Jesus’ grave in the garden he lay but 36 houres in the earthe, yet in respect of the world for which he suffered, there were 3 distincte dayes and nights actually in being, while hee lay in the bowels of the earthe (which is to be distinctly noted to justifie of him, who did not, could not, æquivocate) : Friday night in Judæa, and a day opposite therto in the other hemisphere, just 12 houres ; Saturday 12 houres in Judæa, and the opposite night 12 hours ; Saturday night in Judæa, and the opposite day elsewhere at the same time.
 * 1885, Martyre De Jean Ogilvie, Ernest Leroux; page #156:
 * And when it was replied, that his exceptions being admitted, his oath was as good as no oath, seeing any questions that could bee proposed, would concerne some of these ; he was induced ad last to give a simple oath, which he did upon his knees : and rising up from the ground, said : I will neither he nor æquivocate, but what I say shalbe truth ; and what I am asked, if I find it impertinent for me to answere, I will say nothing, or declare plainly I will not tel.