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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

praetexere

. See

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

[Obs.]

Verb.

[L. proetexo; proe and texo, or tego, texui.]

To cloak; to conceal. [Not used.]

pretex ‎(third-person singular simple present pretexes, present participle pretexing, simple past and past participle pretexed)