Verb

(tergiversat)

To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.

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, year=1999 , author=Philip McCutchan and Werner Levi , title=The Hoof , isbn=0816600864 , page=18 , passage=The officials soon concluded that the easiest way to remain on good terms with the court was to elude responsibility, to tergiversate , to prevent results.}}

To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.

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, year=2002 , author=Colin Morris and Peter Roberts , title=Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan , chapter=8 , isbn=0521808111 , page=221 , passage=Henry had hesitated before authorising the spoliation; he would soon tergiversate on other matters of doctrine but this act was irreversible.}}