prevaricator

[Lat., from prævaricatus, pa. par. of prævaricor =to prevaricate (q. v.); Fr. prévaricateur; Ital. prev a rica tore.] 1. One who betrays or abuses a trust; one who by collusion betrays the cause of his client. "The law, which is promulged against prevaricators ." -Prynne: Treachery and Disloyalty, p. 160. (App.) 2. One who prevaricates; one who quibbles or shuffles in his answers; a shuffler, a quibbler. *3. At Cambridge University (England), a sort of occasional orator, who in his oration at the Commencement, used to make satirical allusions to the conduct of the members of the University.