equivocate Copy link • equivocate: tergĭversor, 1 (to shuffle, evade the question): why do we e., Epicurus, and not confess ..., quid tergiversamur, Epicure, nec fatemur, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 14: to be silent, to dissemble, to e., tacere, dissimulare, t, Cic.