[a. late L. æquivocātor, agent-n. f. æquivocāre: see EQUIVOCATE and -OR.] One who equivocates.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 102. The Iesuites are noted … to be too hardie æquivocators.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. I. ii. (1676), 26/2. The second rank is of Lyars, and Æquivocators, as Apollo Pythius, and the like.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 304. He was … a Sycophant, an Equivocator.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xv. 25. You little equivocator! What do you mean by hardly?
1864. J. H. Newman, Apologia, App. 76. But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense.
