prevaricator
[noun]
Synonyms: liar, Ananias, falsifier, fibber, fibster, perjurer, storyteller

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prevaricator noun. [prɪ'varɪkeɪtǝ] LME.
[Latin praevaricator a person who violates his duty, (in ecclesiastical Latin) transgressor, formed as PREVARICATE: see -OR.]
1. A person who goes astray or deviates from the right course; a transgressor. LME-M18.
b. A person who betrays a cause or violates a trust; a renegade; a traitor. L15-M17.

2. At Cambridge University, an orator who made a jocose or satirical speech at commencement. Cf. TERRAE FILIUS 2. obsolete exc. Hist. E17.

3. A person who acts or speaks evasively; a quibbler, an equivocator. M17.

4. Law. A person who betrayed a client's cause by collusion with an opponent. M17-L18.

5. A person who diverts something from its proper use; a perverter. Long rare or obsolete. L17.

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