prævaricate

Verb

 * 1) * 1843, Abraham Wheelock, quoted in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men; page 158:
 * 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.
 * 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.