I.a declining, refusing; a shift, subterfuge, tergiversation: “quid ergo erat morae et ter giversationis,” Cic. Mil. 20, 54: “tergiversationem istam probo,” id. Att. 10, 7, 1; Auct B Afr 8, 4.—In plur., Front. Aquaed. 5.
tergĭversātĭo , ōnis, f. tergiversor,