单词 | equivocator |
释义 | equivocatorn. One who equivocates. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > deliberate > exploiter of Protean1598 equivocator1599 Janus face1654 straddle-bug1872 agnostic1885 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 102 The Iesuites are noted..to be too hardie æquivocators. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 61 The second ranck is of Liers, and Æquivocaters, as Apollo Pythius, and the like. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 304 He was..a Sycophant, an Equivocator. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xv. 28 You little Equivocator! what do you mean by hardly? 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia App. 76 But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1599 |
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