"prævaricate" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "prævaricates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricated",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1843, Abraham Wheelock, quoted in Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men; page 158",
          "text": "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."
        }
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        "Obsolete spelling of prevaricate."
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  "word": "prævaricate"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prævaricates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prævaricated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of prevaricate."
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          "prevaricate#English"
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