What does "prevarication" mean?

Prevarication: A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Law) (a) (Roman Law) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. (b) (Common Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. Cowell.

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