| 单词 |
tergiverse |
| 释义 |
▪ I. tergiverse, a. rare.|ˈtɜːdʒɪvɜːs|
[f. L. tergum back + versus turned, pa. pple. of vertĕre to turn.]
That has turned his back or practised tergiversation; renegade; shifty.
1852Roebuck Hist. Whig Min. of 1830 I. 290 note The tergiverse administration discovered, when too late, that they had broken the staff of their strength.
▪ II. tergiverse, v. rare.|ˈtɜːdʒɪvɜːs|
[ad. L. tergiversārī to tergiversate; so F. tergiverser.]
†1. trans. To turn backwards, to reverse. (In quot. in ppl. adj. ˈtergiversed.) Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 23 A stay made of the planets course and heauens motion, by reason that primum mobile, in a tergiuersed violence of opposite race to the rest, runs a course against the haire.
2. intr. = tergiversate. Hence ˈtergiversing vbl. n., tergiversation.
1675(title) Quakerism Canvassed: Robin Barclay..found guilty of blasphemy, treason, lying, shifting, quibling, tergiversing, &c. 1688J. Grubb St. George for England 46 The Briton never tergivers'd, But was for adverse drubbing. 1718Entertainer No. 36. 243 If they don't intirely tergiverse, and become Deserters. 1896H. Reid Cameronian Apostle vii. 109 The arbitrary dissolution of one Assembly,..the ‘tergiversing’ of the Moderator and Clerk. |
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