(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:13:38

Pre*tex" (?), v. t. [L. praetexere. See Pretext.]

To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely.

[Obs.]

 

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