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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cavil \Cav"il\ (k[acr]v"[icr]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caviled} [or] {Cavilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caviling} [or] {Cavilling}.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak. | |
