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Jibka tenure

Jibka tenure, the meaning of the expression 'jibka', for aught one knows, is equivocal, for all maintenance grants are not necessarily limited to the grantee's life-time, Nagendra Chandra Nag v. Purna Chandra

Equity

confusion as to the meaning of Equity; as a scheme of jurispru-dence distinct from Law 'Equity' is an equivocal term; the difficulty lies in drawing the dividing lines between the several senses in which it is used.

Parisology

The use of equivocal or ambiguous words

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Pythonism

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi equivocal prophesying

Prevaricate

or turn from one side to the other from the direct course or from truth to speak with equivocation to shuffle to quibble as he prevaricates in his statement

Precise

Having determinate limitations exactly or sharply defined or stated definite exact nice not vague or equivocal as precise rules of morality

Multivocal

Signifying many different things of manifold meaning equivocal

Equivocatory

Indicating or characterized by equivocation

Dilogy

An ambiguous speech a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense

Verba aquivoca ac in dubio sensu posita intelliguntur digniori et potentiori sensu

Verba aquivoca ac in dubio sensu posita intelliguntur digniori et potentiori sensu (6 Rep. 20), words equivocal, and placed in a doubtful sense, are to be taken in their more worthy and effective sense.

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