pretex

English

Etymology

From Latin praetexere. See pretext.

Verb

pretex (third-person singular simple present pretexes, present participle pretexing, simple past and past participle pretexed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To pretend; to declare falsely.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pretex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• expert, xerept