Obs. [perh. the L. (verba) æquivoca ‘equivocal words,’ with an Eng. pl. ending.]

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c. 1400.  Test. Love, III. (1561), 317/2. Thus maie wille by terme of equivocas in three waies been understonde.

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1775.  Ash, Equivocas, an equivocation, Chaucer.

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